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This medium detects urease activity by all rapidly urease-positive Proteus organisms and also by other members of Enterobacteriaceae that exhibits a delayed urease reaction. Prolonged incubation may cause alkaline reaction in the medium. A medium without urea serves as negative control to rule out…
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HiMedia Wang's Semisolid Medium
HiMediaWang's Semisolid Medium is recommended for transport and storage of Campylobacter species. It is an enriched, semisolid medium as recommended by APHA and described by Wang. It is used for the transport and storage of cultures of Campylobacter species from food such as undercooked meat, poultry,…
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Shigella Broth Base
HiMediaShigella are gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore forming rod-shaped bacteria closely related to Escherichia coli and Salmonella . Shigella infection is typically via ingestion (faecal-oral contamination), depending on age and condition of the host, as few as 10 bacterial cells can be enough to…
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Anaerobic Thioglycollate Medium is used for the cultivation of anaerobes. Appearance: Cream to yellow homogeneous free flowing powder Gelling: Semisolid, comparable with 0.07% agar gel Colour and clarity of prepared medium: amber to dark amber coloured clear to slightly opalescent gel Reaction…
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Granulated Luria Bertani Broth, Miller (Miller Luria Bertani Broth) is for the cultivation and maintenance of recombinant strains of Escherichia coli and may be used for routine cultivation of not particularly fastidious microorganisms.
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Granulated Potato Dextrose Broth
HiMediaGranulated Potato Dextrose Broth is for cultivation and enumeration of yeasts and moulds.
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HiMedia Malt Agar
HiMediaMalt agar is recommended by APHA for use in both antibiotic and acidified standard methods for yeast and mold counts in food. This medium is also used for maintaining stock cultures of fungi. with acidic pH, they are used for the isolation, cultivation and maintenance of yeast and molds. …
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HiMedia Bacteriological Peptone
HiMediaPeptone, Bacteriological confer nutritional benefit, especially at low dilution rates, and is recommended to support good growth of wide variety of microorganisms. Appearance: Light yellow to brownish yellow homogenous free flowing powder, having Characteristic odor but not putrescent …
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Potassium Cyanide Broth Base w/o KCN is recommended for differentiation of the members of Enterobacteriaceae on the basis of potassium cyanide tolerance. This medium is used for the differentiation of members of Enterobacteriaceae on the basis of Potassium Cyanide tolerance. Potassium Cyanide Broth…
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HiMedia 5X Minimum Salts
HiMedia5X Minimum Salts is recommended for use in cultivation of recombinant strains of Escherichia coli. This medium prepared based on the formulation of Davis et al and is used in cultivation of recombinant strains of Escherichia coli. Ammonium chloride is added as a nitrogen source. Glucose serves as…
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Antibiotic Assay Medium C is used in turbidometic assay of several antibiotics like Colistimethate sodium, Dihydrostreptomycin sulphate, Erythromycin estolate, Framycetin sulphate, Gentamicin sulphate, Gramicidin, Kanamycin acid sulphate, Kanamycin monosulphate, Neomycin sulphate, Rifamycin sodium,…
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Aspergilli are hyaline moulds that commonly cause opportunistic infections in humans. Allergic bronchopulmonary disease is a manifestation of hypersensitivity to fungal spores or products, a common manifestation of Aspergillus species (particularly A. flavus ). Aspergillus Differentiation Medium…
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Dey-Engley Neutralizing Broth as recommended in disinfectant testing where neutralization of antiseptics and disinfectants is important for determining its bactericidal activity in accordance with USP. It neutralizes quaternary ammonium compounds, phenolics, iodine and chlorine preparations,…
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HiCrome™ UTI Agar
HiMediaHiCrome UTI Agar is a differential medium recommended for presumptive identification and confirmation of microorganisms mainly causing urinary tract infections, can also be used for testing water, food, environmental and other clinical samples.
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R2A Broth
HiMediaThe total bacterial count of drinking water is determined by plate count on a nutritionally rich medium. However all organisms present are not able to grow on them, either because they are slow growers or because they cant grow on that media (1). For this reason a nutritionally reduced medium was…
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HiMedia Jensen's Broth
HiMediaThe HiMedia Jensen's broth comes in various sizes in a glass bottle. This Jensen's broth mainly finds its application in the detection and cultivation of nitrogen fixing bacteria. Application: For Detection and Cultivation of Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
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Cooke Rose Bengal Agar Base is recommended for selective isolation and cultivation of fungi. Chlortetracycline with rose bengal increases the selectivity of the media. Rose bengal and Chlortetracycline selectively inhibit bacterial growth and restrict the size and height of colonies of more rapidly…
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The HiMedia 1% PTe selective supplement (1 mL per vial) is mainly used in research facilities and chemical laboratories to conduct wide range of experiments. It is available in sturdy bottle that endures heavy and rigorous usage. Application: For Selective Isolation of Staphylococci and Corynebacteria
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HiMedia A-1 Broth
HiMediaA-1 Broth is recommended for detecting faecal coliforms in water samples waste water, seawater and food by MPN Method. Andrews and Presnell devised A-1 Medium, which was capable of recovering Escherichia coli from estuarine waters in 24 hours instead of 72 hours by avoiding the pre-enrichment step…
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Yeast Phosphate Agar
HiMediaThe systemic mycoses that are responsible for coccidiodomycosis, histoplasmosis and blastomycosis infections (1), although unrelated generically, morphologically and culturally, have one characteristic in common, that of dimorphism. The dimorphic organisms involved exist in nature as the…
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NZCYM HiVeg™ Growth Medium
HiMediaIn 1977 Blattner and colleagues developed a rich growth medium for the cultivation of recombinants strains of E. coli and propagation of bacteriophages (1). This medium provides amino acids, vitamins and other elements required for the growth of the cells (2). Soya peptone and HiVeg acid…
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Brain Heart Infusion Medium is useful for cultivating a wide variety of microorganisms since it is a highly nutritive medium. Brain Heart Infusion Broth is a modification of the original formulation of Rosenow, where he added pieces of brain tissues to dextrose broth (1). Brain Heart Infusion…
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HiMedia Esculin Azide Broth
HiMediaEsculin Azide broth is used for selective cultivation and identification of Streptococci. The broth is selective due to presence of bile salts and sodium azide and provides rapid growth of Streptococci. Streptococci hydrolyze esculin to esculetin and dextrose. Esculetin and ferric ammonium citrate…
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Agar used for the detection and enumeration of mesophilic and thermophilic aerobic organisms in foods.
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NZ Amine A Broth
HiMediaEscherichia coli is commonly used as a model organism for bacteria in general. Because of its ubiquity, E. coli is frequently studied in microbiology and is the current “workhorse” in molecular biology. E. coli plays an important role in modern biological engineering. Researchers can alter the…
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Granulated Brain Heart Infusion Agar (Special Infusion Agar) is for cultivation of fastidious pathogenic bacteria, yeasts and moulds.
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