Thermo Scientific™ Reinforced Clostridial Medium (RCM) (Dehydrated)

Description

• Cultivate and enumerate clostridia and other anaerobes occurring in food and pathological samples with Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ Reinforced Clostridial Medium
• A semi-solid, highly nutritious medium can be used as an enrichment medium to optimize the growth of clostridia before sub-culturing to solid agar
• Use Reinforced Clostridial Medium (RCM) for the isolation and cultivation of anaerobic organisms occurring in a variety of habitats, including food and pathological specimens
• Superior fertility: the medium produced the highest viable count when compared to other media tested by Hirsch & Grinstead 1 Differential: can be made differential for sulphite-reducing clostridia by the addition of sodium sulphite and ferric citrate 2 Reinforced Clostridial Medium (RCM) was designed by Hirsch & Grinstead 1 for the cultivation and enumeration of clostridia
• They showed that the medium was more fertile and enabled growth to be initiated from small inocula more readily than five other media tested
• In a further comparison, the highest viable count obtainable was the criterion used, and again, RCM proved superior
• Compared with the spleen infusion medium of Mundt & Jones 3 , RCM gave somewhat higher counts (Gibbs & Hirsch 4 )
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