Thermo Scientific™ MacConkey Agar No. 3 (Dehydrated)

Description

• Detect and enumerate coliform organisms, including Escherichia coli , while isolating and detecting Salmonella and Shigella spp
• in both clinical and food specimens using Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ MacConkey Agar No.3
• A modification of the original MacConkey medium by the addition of selected bile salts, the medium gives improved differentiation of coliforms and non-lactose fermenting organisms while completely inhibiting Gram-positive cocci
• Use MacConkey Agar No
• 3 for detection and enumeration of coliform organisms while isolating and detecting Salmonella and Shigella spp
• in pathological and food specimens
• Selective and differential: due to the inclusion of a specially prepared fraction of bile salts in addition to crystal violet, the medium gives improved differentiation between coliforms and non-lactose fermenting organisms while Gram-positive cocci are completely inhibited
• Easy-to-read: Escherichia coli (red colonies with bile precipitation) is easy to differentiate from Shigella spp
• (straw coloured colonies) and Salmonella (Straw coloured colonies)
• Recommended by the American Public Health Association 1 MacConkey Agar No.3 formulation corresponds with that recommended by the American Public Health Association 1 for the direct plating of water samples for coliform bacilli, for the examination of food samples for food poisoning organisms 2 and for the isolation of Salmonella and Shigella species in cheese 3
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