Mueller Hinton Agar/W Ampicillin Sodium Salt
Catalog No: DCP-MHAPAS
Features:
Ph: 7.3±0.1
Type of Specimen: clinical samples (Pure cultures isolated from urine, stool, blood, etc)
Concentration: 50 µg/mL
Size: 100 mm
Storage: Keep away from light at 4°C
Shipping Condition: Blue ice
Appearance: Light amber colored 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
Mueller Hinton Agar (MHA) was originally developed as a simple, clear agar medium for the cultivation of Neisseria species. Over time, its primary use has shifted to determining sulfonamide resistance in gonococci and other organisms. MHA is widely used as a test medium for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), particularly for the diffusion of antimicrobial agents impregnated on paper discs through an agar gel.
The formulation of Mueller Hinton Agar demonstrates excellent batch-to-batch reproducibility for susceptibility testing. It contains low levels of sulfonamide, trimethoprim, and tetracycline inhibitors, supporting the growth of most non-fastidious bacterial pathogens. For antimicrobial susceptibility testing of fastidious organisms like Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, Mueller Hinton Agar supplemented with 5% sheep blood or hemoglobin is recommended.
Mueller Hinton Agar is not suitable for disc diffusion assays involving slow-growing organisms, anaerobes, or capnophiles, as prolonged incubation may degrade antibiotics and yield imprecise results. It remains the recommended medium for antimicrobial diffusion testing using paper discs in routine microbiology laboratories.
* 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
