Brain Heart Infusion Agar with 1% Agar, HiVeg, 500G

Prepared by completely replacing animal based peptones with vegetable peptones which makes the media free of BSE/TSE risks, this highly nutritious media can support luxuriant growth of a wide variety of microorganisms. These like the conventional media, can be further enriched by the addition of blood or rendered selective by adding different antibiotics. This media is a general purpose culture media for primary isolation of aerobic bacteria from clinical specimens. Addition of suitable antimicrobial agent/ mixture with 5- sterile defibrinated blood is often recommended for inhibition of bacteria and isolation of pathogenic systemic fungi. Application: A Solid Medium Recommended For the Cultivation of Fastidious Pathogenic Bacteria, Yeasts & Moulds Appearance of Powder: Light yellow coloured may have slightly greenish tinge, homogeneous, free flowing powder Gelling: firm, comparable with 1.5% of mv211 or 1.0% of mv211a agar gel Colour and clarity: light amber coloured, clear to slightly opalescent gel. With addition of 5% v/v sterile defibrinated blood, cherry red coloured opaque gel forms in petri plates Reaction of 5.2% w/v of MV211 or 4.7% w/v of MV211A aqueous solution is pH 7.4 ± 0.2 at 25°C Cultural characteristics observed after an incubation at 37°C for 18-24 hours