Columbia Blood Agar Base is used as a highly nutritious, general-purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of non-fastidious and fastidious microorganisms, with or without addition of blood, from a variety of clinical and nonclinical specimens.
Composition* Ingredients
| g/L
|
Pancreatic Digest of Casein
| 10.0
|
Proteose Peptone No.3
| 5.0
|
Yeast Extract
| 5.0
|
| MX Nutrients 1# | 3.0
|
Corn Starch
| 1.0
|
Sodium Chloride
| 5.0
|
Agar
| 15.0
|
*Adjusted to suit performance parameters.
Final pH (at 25°C): 7.3 ± 0.2
#Equivalent to Beef Heart Infusion from 500 g
g/L: Suspend 44.00 g of powder in 1000 mL purified / distilled water.
