BD Difco™ Dehydrated Culture Media Manufactured and tested for uniformity and consistency from lot-to-lot Packaging offered in 100 g, 500 g, 2 kg and 10 kg BBL/Difco Laboratories maintains a strong commitment to research and development, resulting in an extensive range…

Mixture of peptides and free amino acids from pancreatic hydrolysis of animal tissue. Low NaCl content suitable for tissue culture. Total Nitrogen (TN): 15.0-16.0% Amino Nitrogen (AN): 3.0-3.5% AN/TN Ratio: 0.21-0.23

CRITERION™ TCBS (Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose) Agar is recommended for the selective isolation and cultivation of Vibrio spp. from clinical specimens.

Buffered Peptone Water is a pre-enrichment medium used for increasing the recovery of injured Salmonella species from foods prior to selective enrichment and isolation. Buffered Peptone Water is a pre-enrichment medium designed to help recovery of sub-lethally damaged Salmonellae before…

Tryptone, used in sterility testing, diagnostic media preparations. Classification: Technical Grade

Soya Peptone is the soluble end product of the enzymic digestion of soyabean meal. Because of the stimulatory properties associated with soya peptone, it is ideally recommended as a growth stimulant for the cultivation of fastidious microorganisms. Appearance: Light yellow to brownish yellow, may…

Casitose Yeast Peptone is a mixture of milk protein and yeast peptone, manufactured under controlled conditions to retain its nutritive values. It has highly nutritious to meet the growth requirements of wide variety of microorganisms. It is equivalent to Casein Yeast Peptone. Application: For…

It is rich in vitamins especially those belonging to B complex and is often used to supply these factors in culture media at a concentration of 0.3% to 0.5%. It is particularly used in media for cultivation of microorganisms encountered in milk or other dairy products. Yeast Extract Powder is…

CRITERION™ Tryptose Broth is used for cultivating a wide variety of fastidious microorganisms, particularly Brucella spp.

Brain Heart Infusion Powder is a mixture of calf brain infusion and beef heart infusion. Each 17.5 grams of the powder contains infusions from 200 grams calf brain and 250 grams beef heart. It is a yellowish brown coloured, free flowing powder having characteristic but not putrescent odour. It…

It is highly nutritious and can be employed in culture media for bulk production of antibiotics, enzymes, veterinary preparations, bacterial toxins, etc. It is recommended for use in media that support good growth of a large number of microorganisms including Staphylococci, Streptococci,…

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…

BD Supplies more than 400 different BD Difco™ and BD BBL™ brand media formulations and ingredients in dehydrated form for the convenience of the laboratorian and bioprocessing specialist.

CRITERION™ GC Agar Base is used in the preparation of media for the cultivation and selective isolation of fastidious organisms such as Neisseria and Haemophilus species. VCAT Selective Supplement, product #SR104B and GC Growth Supplement, Vitox with Diluent, product #SR090A, are required for…

CRITERION™ Papaic Digest of Soybean Meal is an enzymatic soybean meal prepared especially for use in microbiological cultures. It is recommended for use in media for the cultivation of a large variety of organisms, including fungi, and is also used in media for microbiological assay.

The BD lactose broth is developed specifically for the cultivation of a wide range of microorganisms from the derivatives of clinical and non-clinical specimens. It comes in a ready-to-use petri dish that prevents sticking of bacteria on the surface.

It is recommended for general laboratory media and for commercial production of enzymes, vaccines, antibiotics, steroids & other microbiological products. Yeast Extract Type I is prepared from specially cultivated yeast cells. It is rich in vitamins and other nutritive substances and so,…

Casein Acid Hydrolysate is obtained by degrading casein with hydrochloric acid; vitamins and other growth promoting compounds are largely destroyed in the process. Appearance Off white to yellow Homogenous Free flowing powder,having Characteristic odor but not putrescent. Solubility …

Coliforms are considered to be members of Enterobacteriaceae , which grow in the presence of bile salts and produce acid and gas from lactose within 48 hours at 37°C (1). These bacteria can also be defined as, members of Enterobacteriaceae capable of growing at 37°C, that normally…

Peptone Type I, Bacteriological is prepared under controlled conditions, used as culture media ingredient for cultivation of various bacteria. Employed for different fermentation processes, production of vaccines, antibiotics, etc. Application: For Culture Media Ingredient Appearance: Light…

Sabouraud Dextrose Agar is used in qualitative procedures for cultivation of pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungi, particularly dermatophytes. The medium is rendered more selective for fungi by the addition of antimicrobics.

Hardy Diagnostics CRITERION™ Tryptic Soy Agar is recommended for use as a general growth medium for the isolation and cultivation of microorganisms. This medium is also recommended for use in the cultivation, storage, and transportation of pure cultures of bacteria. CRITERION™…

BD supplies more than 400 different BD Difco™ and BD BBL™ brand media formulations and ingredients in dehydrated form for the convenience of the laboratorian and bioprocessing specialist.

CRITERION™ Tryptic Soy Broth is recommended for use as a general purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms.

BD Supplies more than 400 different BD Difco™ and BD BBL™ brand media formulations and ingredients in dehydrated form for the convenience of the laboratorian and bioprocessing specialist.

Enriched media for maintenance and propogation of E. coli and plasmid growth. Produces higher cell densities resulting in greater yields of DNA or recombinant problem. Glycerol is used as a carbon source with this formulation instead of glucose as it will not ferment to acetic acid. …

It can be used for the preparation of media for cultivation of following bacteria: Neisseria species : G C HiVeg Agar Base (MV434), Thayer Martin HiVeg Medium Base (MV413) Yersinia species : Yersinia Selective HiVeg Agar Base (MV843). Staphylococci and Streptococci : Columbia Blood Agar Base…

It is rich in carbohydrates and is ideally suitable for use in media employed for cultivation of fungi such as, Malt Agar, Malt Extract Agar, Yeast Malt Agar, etc. Malt Extract Powder is prepared from aqueous extract of sprouted malt grains and dried at low temperature to preserve nutrients…

Soyabean Casein Digest Medium is recommended by various pharmacopeias as a sterility testing and as a microbial limit testing medium (1, 2, 3). This medium is a highly nutritious medium used for cultivation of a wide variety of organisms (4). The combination of pancreatic digest of casein and…

HM Peptone B Powder is not exposed to harsh treatment of protein hydrolysis, as used for preparation of peptone. Hence it supplies phosphates, minerals, energy sources and other essential nutrients missing from peptone. It has wide application in general purpose, diagnostic media employed for bulk…

Liver Extract Powder is a dehydrated extract of fresh liver tissues of healthy animals. It is processed under controlled conditions to retain all the nutritive values of liver. Appearance Brownish yellow to brown Homogenous Free flowing powder, having Characteristic odor but not putrescent. …

CRITERION™ Mueller Hinton Agar is recommended for use in the cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Mueller Hinton Agar is recommended for disk diffusion sensitivity testing of non-fastidious organisms.