Mannitol Salt Agar Plates/W Ampicillin Sodium Salt
Catalog.No: DCP-MSAPAS
Features:
Uses: Selective & presumptive identification of Staphlyococcus aureus from clinical, food, cosmetic, and environmental samples
pH: 7.4 ± 0.2
Size: 100 mm
Concentration:50 µg/mL
Storage: Keep away from light at 4°C
Shipping Condition: Blue ice
Apeearance: red to pink-red, clear to slightly opalescent
Sterile
Shelf Life: 2 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:
Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA) with ampicillin sodium salt is a modified selective and differential medium where ampicillin is added to standard MSA to further suppress ampicillin-susceptible background flora while still recovering salt-tolerant staphylococci. It is not a standard commercial formulation, so any use (including concentration) should be validated in-house for your strains and application.
MSA contains peptones and beef extract which is a source of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and nitrogen. Sodium chloride produces high osmotic pressure that most bacteria are unable to tolerate. D-mannitol is a fermentable carbohydrate, phenol red is used as a pH indicator, yellow at acidic pH, red at neutral to alkaline pH. Ampicillin Sodium Salt is a β-lactam antibiotic with activity against a broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The addition of ampicillin sodium salt to MSA provides additional selective pressure by inhibiting ampicillin-susceptible organisms that might otherwise grow on the high-salt medium alone.
* 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
