Thermo Scientific™ Columbia Agar MLT (Dehydrated)

Description

• Cultivate fastidious and non-fastidious organisms, including Clostridium sporogenes using Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Columbia Agar MLT (Dehydrated)
• Columbia agar is a general purpose nutritious medium first developed by Ellner et al
• at Columbia University 1
• Ellner combined peptones from both animal and vegetable proteins which enrich the growth of both fastidious and nonfastidious organisms
• Columbia Agar MLT is formulated in conformance with the harmonized United States Pharmacopeia (USP) / European Pharmacopeia (EP) guidelines to test for the presence of Clostridium spp 2,3
• Cultivate fastidious and non-fastidious organisms, including Clostridium sporogenes using Columbia Agar MLT
• Conforms to the harmonized United States Pharmacopeia (USP)/ European Pharmacopeia (EP) guidelines for microbial limits testing for Clostridium spp
• Can be used as a base agar to isolate various organisms by the addition of specific supplements
• This medium can be used for qualitative procedures as a general purpose medium
• It contains peptones which supply growth factors such as nitrogen, carbon, vitamins, and trace elements essential for bacterial growth
• Corn starch serves as an energy source and yeast extract supplies B-complex vitamins
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• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.