Thermo Scientific™ Bacteroides Fragilis Isolation Agar

Description

• Isolate and presumptively identify Bacteroides fragilis group from clinical specimens with the selective, differential Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Bacteroides Fragilis Isolation Agar
• The selectivity of this medium is provided by the addition of gentamicin and bile
• Differentiation is facilitated by the hydrolysis of esculin to esculitin by the Bacteroides fragilis group
• Ferric ammonium citrate is added to the medium to react with esculetin and produce a brown-black complex surrounding the colony
• Bacteroides fragilis is an obligately anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium
• It is part of the normal microbiota of the human colon and is generally commensal, but can cause infection if displaced into the bloodstream or surrounding tissue following surgery, disease, or trauma
• Bacteroides Fragilis Isolation Agar is a selective and differential medium for recovery and presumptive identification of Bacteroides fragilis group
• Easy-to-read : Bacteroides fragilis colonies are easy to read due to brown-black complex surrounding the colonies
• Selective : gentamicin and bile make the medium selective for Bacteroides fragilis
• Gentamicin inhibits most facultative anaerobes and bile inhibits anaerobic gram-negative bacilli with the exception of Bacteroides fragilis group and other Bacteroids and Fusobacteria
• Ready-to-use : convenience of prepared media
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• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.