Columbia Agar Base Plates/W Gentamicin
Catalog No: DCP-CABPG
pH: 7.3 ± 0.2
Uses: Standard method base for enumeration and detection of bacteria in food and environmental samples, and clinical speciments
Size: 100mm
Concentration: 5 µg/mL
Storage: Keep away from light at 4°C
Shipping Condition: Blue ice
Apeearance: light amber, clear to slightly opalescent firm gel. Adding 5% sheep (or horse/rabbit) blood, the medium becomes opaque red
Sterile
Shelf Life: 4 weeks
*All agar plates are manufactured with ultrapure water, deionized and demineralized to minimize ionic and organic contaminants. The premium ISO certified agar solution is sterilized by a full cycle of autoclaving. Each 100mm plate has 20mL of agar medium in premium plastic dish
Description:
Columbia agar base with gentamicin is a rich, general-purpose agar medium based on Columbia agar that has been supplemented with the aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin to make it selective for certain Gram-positive and fastidious organisms while suppressing much of the background flora. Columbia agar base is a peptone-rich medium developed originally as a blood agar base for fastidious bacteria. The peptones and yeast extract provide amino acids, nitrogen, vitamins, and growth factors required for robust growth of fastidious and non-fastidious organisms. NaCl maintains osmotic balance.
Columbia agar if often enriched with 5-10% defibrinated sheep, horse, or rabbit blood and becoming "Columbia Blood Agar" that would allow the assessment of hemolysis and enhances growth and pigment production in many pathogens. The addition of gentamicin adds a further level of selectivity by inhibiting many gentamicin-susceptible Gram-negative bacilli and staphylococci, thereby favoring the recovery of organisms that are resistant or less affected at this concentration.
* This product is manufactured under ISO 13485-certified and CE-approved facilities (Suppliers of DiagnoCine Precision). All final packaging, quality assurance, and testing are done at the DiagnoCine R&D and Quality Testing Center. All specific customization requests and assembly were accomplished at DiagnoCine Precision in Totowa, New Jersey, USA
