Malt Extract Agar Plates/W Gentamicin
Catalog.No: DCP-MEAPG
Features:
Uses: clinical, food safety, fungal taxonomy and classification
pH: 5.0–5.2
Size: 100 mm
Concentration: 50 µg/mL
Storage: Keep away from light at 2–8°C
Shipping Condition: Blue ice
Appearance: light amber to amber-colored appearance with a slightly opalescent clarity
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:
Malt Extract Agar (MEA) plates with gentamicin are fungal isolation plates in which a standard MEA formulation is supplemented with aminoglycoside antibiotic (gentamicin) to supress bacteria, while allowing yeasts and molds to grow. MEA contains malt extract as the primary carbon and energy source, supplying maltose, vitamins, dextrins, and growth factors that strongly support fungal metabolism and sporulation. Mycological peptone/peptone provides nitrogenous compounds and amino acids, enabling luxuriant fungal growth and characteristic colony morphology.
Gentamicin is a aminoglycoside antibiotic that binds 30S ribosomal subunit in bacteria, causing mistranslation and inhibition of protein synthesis, leading to bacterial cell death. Gentamicin exhibits a broad activity against many gram-negative and some gram-positive bacteria and retains activity over a relatively wide pH range, allowing it to be suitable for acidic media such as MEA. When added to MEA, gentamicin suppresses bacterial contaminants that may otherwise overgrow or obscure fungal colonies, enhancing recovery and visibility of yeast and mold colonies from mixed samples such as environmental, food, cosmetics, and clinical material. Common antibacterial working concentrations of gentamicin in culture media fall around 10–50 µg/mL.
The combination of Gentamicin and MEA further suppresses residual bacterial flora that may tolerate lower pH, producing a favorable selective environment for yeasts and molds from complex samples.
* 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
