| Identifiers |
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| Product Name |
Brolacin Agar (CLED Agar) |
| Catalogue No. |
CM510157 |
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Description |
This general purpose medium has been recommended for bacteriological urine analysis. Current formulation is a modification of the original one reported by Sandys, that achieves an excellent colony differentiation without inhibitors. This fact, and also the careful selection of nutritive components, makes this medium a substrate able to support growth of most urinary pathogenic bacteria. Presence of lactose as a fermentable sugar allows classic differentiation and, at the same time, lack of electrolytes suppresses swarming waves on the members of the Proteus species and sometimes growth of Shigella sp. also. The characteristics of colonies that grow on C.L.E.D. Agar (after 18 hours of incubation): Escherichia coli: Yellowish colonies, opaque, with core, 1,25 mm diameter. Non fermentative strains give blue colonies. Klebsiella sp.: Very mucuous colonies of variable colour, from yellow to blue-white. Salmonella sp.: Plain and blue colonies. Enterococcus faecalis: Yellow colonies. 0,5 mm d |
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Application |
Cystine,lactose,electrolyte deficient medium, recommended for the isolation and identification of urinary pathogenic bacteria. |