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Culture media for Enterococci and Group D streptococci

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Bile Esculin Agar

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Selective media for Salmonella (stool)

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Bismuth Sulfite Agar

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Culture media for the Differentiation of Hemolytic Patterns and for Fastidious Organisms

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Blood Agar

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Culture media for Bordetella pertussis

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Bordet Gengou Agar

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Selective media for Salmonella

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Brilliant Green Agar

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Culture media for Francisella tularensis

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Blood Cystine Dextrose Agar

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Culture media for Legionella spp.

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Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract (BCYE)

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Culture media for Campylobacter spp.

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Campy-blood agar
Cefoperazone Vancomycin Amphotericin Agar
Skirrow Agar

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Selective holding medium for Campylobacter for cold enrichment technique

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Campy-thioglycollate broth

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Culture media for obligate, slow-growing anaerobe

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CDC anaerobe 5% sheep blood agar

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Culture media for Yersinia enterocolitoca and Aeromonas

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Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin Agar (CIN)

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Culture media for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Cetrimide Agar

Seller’s Agar

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Culture media for Chlamydia and Rickettsia

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Chick embryo

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Culture media for Neisseria and Haemophilus

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Chocolate Agar

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Culture media for Haemophilus spp.

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Chocolate Agar with horse blood

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Culture media for MRSA and fungi

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Chromogenic media

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Selective media for Gram-positive cocci

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Columbia Colistin-Nalidixic Agar (CNA)

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Culture media for Corynebacterium diptheriae

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Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar

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Culture media for Clostridium dificile

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Cyclosporine Cefoxitin Fructose Agar (CCFA)

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Culture media for Nocardia asteriodes

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Czapek Agar

Dorset Egg medium

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Culture media for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Dorset Egg medium

Dubos Oleic Agar

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Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella (stool)

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Desoxycholate Citrate Agar

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Culture media for Vibrio cholerae

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Dieudonne’s medium

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Culture media for Mycoplasma

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Edward Hayflick Agar

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Differential media for LF and NLF

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Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB)-Levine medium

Mac Conkey Agar

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Culture media for Leptospira interrogans

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Ellinghausen, McCullough, Johnson and Harris (EMJH) medium

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Culture media for Leptospira

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Fletcher’s semi solid medium

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Culture media for Haemophilus ducreyi

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Fetal Bovine Serum Agar with vancomycin

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Culture media for Mycobacterium leprae

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Foot pads of mice

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Culture media for enteric pathogens like Salmonella and Shigella Selective and enrichment medium

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Gram Negative (GN) broth

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Culture media foe Gardnerella vaginalis

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Human Blood Bilayer Tween medium

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Culture media for the differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella

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Hektoen Enteric (HE) Agar

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Culture media for Bacteriodes

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Kanamycin-Vancomycin Blood Agar (KVBA)

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Culture media for Borrelia burgdorferi

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Kelly’s medium

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Culture media for Corynebacterium diptheriae

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Loeffler’s Blood Serum medium

Tinsdale agar

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Culture media for anaerobic organisms

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Lombard Dowell medium

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Culture media for Mycobacteria

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Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) Agar
Middlebrook 7H10
Petragnani medium

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Culture media for Enterobacteriaceae (deamination or decarboxylation)

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Lysine Iron agar

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Culture media for Clostridium spp.

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Litmus milk media

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Selective media foe Gram-negative bacteria

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Mac Conkey Agar

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Culture media E. Coli O157:H7 in fecal specimen

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Mac Conkey Agar with Sorbitol

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Culture media for Staphylococcus aureus

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Mannitol Salt Sugar

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Culture media for Listeria monocytogenes

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Mc Bride medium

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Culture media foe Neisseria gonorrheae

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Martin Lewis agar
New York City (NYC) agar
Thayer Martin agar

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Culture media foe susceptibility test (antimicrobial testing)

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Mueller Hinton agar

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Culture media for Enterococci

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Methylene Blue Milk

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Differential media for Acinetobacter, Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas

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Oxidative-Fermentative (OF) medium

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Culture media for Gram-positive bacteria

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Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol medium

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Culture media for Haemophilus influenzae

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Rabbit Blood Agar with yeast extract

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Culture media for Bordetella pertussis

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Regan Lowe

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Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella

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Salmonella-Shigella Agar (SSA)

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Culture media for Salmonella spp.

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Selenite broth (enrichment medium)

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Nonselective medium for aerobes and anaerobes; selective for Campylobacter and Helicobacter

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Schaedler agar

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Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella spp.

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Tetrathionate broth

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Culture media for Neisseria meningitidis

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Thayer Martin agar

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Culture media for aerobes and anaerobes

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Thioglycollate

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Culture media for Streptococcus agalactiae in female genital specimens

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Todd-Hewitt broth (selective & enrichment) with nalidixic acid and gentamicin/colistin

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Blood culture bottle base Streptococcus and Brucella

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Trypticase Soy Broth (TSB)

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Culture media for Aerobic actinomycetes

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Tyrosine agar

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Culture media for Spirochetes

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Tween 80-albumin broth

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Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella

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Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) agar

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Culture media for Vibrio

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Alkaline Peptone Broth

Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salt Sucrose Agar (TCBS)

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