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Blood Agar Plates and Hemolysis Protocols
asm.org"Blood Agar" is not a consistently defined medium. The term "blood agar" generally refers to an enriched base medium to which defibrinated mammalian blood has been added. In the US "blood agar" is usually prepared from Tryptic Soy Agar or Columbia Agar base with 5% Sheep blood. Rabbit or horse blood may be
Tryptic Soy Agar - BD
www.bd.comINSTRUCTIONS FOR USE – PARTIALLY COMPLETED BOTTLED MEDIA BA-256665.02 Rev.: August 2003 BD Tryptic Soy Agar INTENDED USE BD Tryptic Soy Agar, provided in bottles, is a partially completed general purpose medium which, after pouring into Petri dishes or tubes, supports the growth of nonfastidious as well as
ANNEX Preparation of Media and Reagents
www.cdc.govA. Blood agar plate (BAP): trypticase soy agar (TSA) + 5% sheep blood . A BAP is used as a general blood agar medium. It is used for growth and testing of N. meningitidis and S. pneumoniae. The plate should appear a bright red color. If the plates appear dark red, they are either old or the blood was likely added when the agar was too hot. If ...
Microbiological Best Laboratory Practices, USP <1117 ...
microbiologynetwork.comwith R2A agar, but many facilities use TSA (Trypticase Soy Agar) or HPCA (Heterotrophic Plate Count Agar) for this purpose. The recommendation is provided that the choice of media should be consistent, appropriate and justified. An entire section is devoted to the question of media storage and the effects this might have on the media quality.