| Identifiers |
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| Product Name |
Bacillus Cereus Agar Base (Without Supplement , see List of Reagents & Supplements Ref. 6-016 and 6-021CASE) |
| Catalogue No. |
CM510100 |
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Description |
Mossel’s formulation is developed to detect and enumerate B.cereus in any kind of food, since it lets a good differentiation and selection of these microorganisms. Polymyxin addition inhibits most of accompanying bacteria, but it does not affect the growth of B.cereus.This bacteria do not ferment mannitol and thus there is no change in the indicator around the colonies. On other hand, due to lecithinase activity of B.cereus it produces a halo or zone of white precipitate around the colonies. A count of B.cereus over 100.000 cells/g of the food sample is considered to be hazardous, since the accumulated phosphoril-choline may cause intoxication symptoms in children. For this reason, besides common isolation and identification, a viable enumeration must be performed to evaluate the real population of cells |
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Application |
Selective solid medium, according to Mossel, for the isolation and identification of Bacillus cereus from food samples. |