HiMedia, 500 g
HIMEDIA
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These agar media are selective since the concentration of bile salts, which inhibit gram-positive microorganisms, is low in comparison with other enteric plating media. The medium M081, which corresponds with, that recommended by APHA can be used for the direct plating of water samples for coliform…
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HiMedia Basal Mineral Medium
HiMediaBasal Mineral Medium is used for the cultivation of Beggiatoa species. Beggiatoa is most frequently found in natural environments high in heterotrophic organisms. Beggiatoa is one of the few filamentous bacteria that is motile. They have sulphur granules within its cells and attached growth is…
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This medium is a selective medium, recommended for detection and enumeration of gram negative bile-tolerant bacteria in accordance with United States Pharmacopoeia, 2008 from food and dietary supplement preparations. It is used as Selective medium for detection and enumeration of gram negative…
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HiMedia Halophilic Agar
HiMediaHalophilic agar is recommended for isolation and cultivation of extremely halophilic bacteria. It has 25% sodium chloride. Organisms that can tolerate this high concentration of salt can grow on this medium. It has Acicase™, proteose peptone and yeast extract which provide all the necessary…
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Plate Count HiVeg™ Agar with Tween 80 and Lecithin is used for sanitary examination of surfaces, that is, for counts before and after application of disinfectants. Addition of Polysorbate 80 and lecithin act as neutralizers to inactivate the residual disinfectants where the samples are collected.…
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Tryptose Phosphate Broth
HiMediaTryptose Phosphate Broth is prepared as recommended by APHA (1) for the cultivation of fastidious aerobic bacteria especially Streptococcus species, Listeria and pathogenic Neisseria species. It is also used for antibiotic sensitivity testing by tube method (2). This medium with the addition of…
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Granulated Potato Dextrose Agar
HiMediaFor the cultivation of yeasts and moulds from pharmaceutical products in accordance with the microbial limit testing by harmonized methodology of USP/EP/BP/JP.
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Bile Salts Mixture
HiMediaBile Salt Mixture is recommended for use is microbiological culture media for selective isolation and cultivation of bile tolerant enteric bacteria.It is recommended for use in MacConkey Agar, SS Agar, Violet Red Bile Agar. It selectively inhibits gram-positive and spore bearing microorganisms…
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Prepared by completely replacing animal based peptones with vegetable peptones which makes the media free of BSE/TSE risks, this highly nutritious media can support luxuriant growth of a wide variety of microorganisms. These like the conventional media, can be further enriched by the addition of…
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Plate Count Agar is formulated as described by Buchbinder et al (1) which is recommended by APHA (2,3,4) and FDA (5). Casein enzymic hydrolysate provides amino acids and other complex nitrogenous substances. Yeast extract supplies Vitamin B complex. APHA recommends the use of pour plate…
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Granulated Standard Nutrient Agar No. 1 is for cultivation of fastidious bacteria.
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Simmons Citrate Agar
HiMediaThese media are used for the differentiation between Enterobacteriaceae and the members of aerogenes group on the basis of citrate utilization as sole carbon source. Initially the citrate medium was developed by Koser (1) containing ammonium salt as the only nitrogen source and citrate as the…
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Dichloran HiVeg™ Medium Base with Rose Bengal is recommended for selective isolation and enumeration of yeasts and moulds associated with food spoilage. Hiveg medium with Rose Bengal is used along with Rose Bengal Chloramphenicol Agar where it is necessary to enumerate yeasts in the presence of…
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Fluid Lactose Medium
HiMediaColiforms are rod shaped gram-negative organisms that ferment lactose with the production of acid and gas. They are regarded as bacterial indicators of sanitary quality of foods and water. Salmonella is a rod shaped gram-negative enterobacteria commonly implicated in foodborne illness. These…
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Peptone Water with Phenol Red
HiMediaPeptone Water is particularly suitable as a substrate in the study of indole production. Peptic digest of animal tissue used in Peptone Water is rich in tryptophan content. Peptone Water is also utilized as a base for carbohydrate fermentation studies with the addition of sugar and indicators such…
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M17 Agar with Glycerophosphate
HiMediaM17 media are based on the formulation described by Terzaghi and Sandine (1) for the cultivation and enumeration of lactic Streptococci and their bacteriophages. It is possible to study plaque morphology and lysogeny. M17 Agar is recommended by the International Dairy Federation (5) for selective…
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HiMedia MUG EC HiVeg™ Broth
HiMediaMUG EC HiVeg™ Broth is recommended for detection of Escherichia coli in water and food samples by a fluorogenic method. Hiveg media recommended by APHA for the analysis of drinking water, surface and ground water and waste-water for the presence of Escherichia coli. It permits rapid detection of E.…
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Brilliant Green Bile Agar
HiMediaBrilliant Green Bile Agar was originally formulated by Nobel and Ponney (1) for enumeration of coliform bacteria from materials of sanitary importance. Subsequently APHA approved the medium for the estimation of coliforms in test samples of various materials (2, 3). The medium contains a…
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This medium is formulated as per Manual of Microbiological Methods and used for the maintenance of Acetobacter species utilizing glucose. Yeast extract in the medium provides nitrogen, vitamins and minerals necessary to support bacterial growth. Glucose acts as energy source. Calcium carbonate acts…
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HiCrome™ UTI Selective Agar
HiMediaHiCrome UTI Selective Agar is chromogenic differential medium for identification, differentiation and confirmation of enteric bacteria from specimens such as urine, which may contain large number of Proteus species as well as potentially pathogenic gra
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For isolation and identification of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains associated with infant diarrhoea.
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Pseudomonas Asparagine Broth
HiMediaRecreational water like from swimming pool is a body of water in a holding structure. Microorganisms of concern are those causing infections of ear, skin and upper respiratory tract etc. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of those organisms which account for a large percentage of swimming pool…
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Fluid Lactose HiVeg™ Medium with Soya Lecithin and Polysorbate 20 (Twin Pack) is recommended for microbial evaluation of oral hygiene products. HM Peptone B and gelatin peptone provide nitrogen and carbon compounds, long chain amino acids and other essential nutrients for bacterial metabolism.…
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Blood Agar Base No. 2
HiMediaA fastidious organism is one with complete nutritional requirements, needing additional cellular building-block molecules in order to survive (1). Blood Agar Base No. 2 is a highly nutritive medium. Microorganisms producing haemolysin give visible haemolytic zones on this medium. It also serves as…
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Triple Sugar Iron Agar
HiMediaBrewer thioglycollate medium is prepared as per the original formula of Brewer (1, 2). It contains highly nutritious proteose peptone and beef infusion, which support luxuriant growth of even fastidious bacteria. Sodium thioglycollate helps to create anaerobic condition as well as neutralizes…
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Agar used for the identification of gram-negative enteric bacilli on the basis of dextrose, lactose and sucrose fermentation and hydrogen sulphide production.
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The phenol coefficient test has been employed for determining the germicidal efficiency of disinfectants for over 30 years since Rideal and Walker developed their original method in 1903 (1). In addition to being a satisfactory index of the germicidal value of phenol like disinfectants, the phenol…
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Agar used for the detection and enumeration of mesophilic and thermophilic aerobic organisms in foods.