Thermo Scientific™ Rose Bengal Agar w/Chloramphenicol

Description

• Selectively cultivate, isolate, and enumerate yeasts and molds from environmental and food specimens with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Contact I Rose Bengal Agar (with chloramphenicol)
• Smith and Dawson added rose bengal to a medium with neutral pH for selective isolation of fungi from soil samples 1
• Rose Bengal Agar with chloramphenicol is based on the formula developed by Jarvis for enumeration of yeasts and molds from food and water 2,3
• Selectively cultivate, isolate, and enumerate yeasts and molds using selective medium Contact I Rose Bengal Agar (with chloramphenicol)
• Ready-to-use – Contact plates
• Convenience of prepared media
• Selective – Chloramphenicol is the selective agent which inhibits bacterial growth
• Easy-to-interpret – Cells of yeasts and molds absorb the rose bengal dye turning colonies color to pink, which makes the identification of the yeasts and molds easier
• Contact I Rose Bengal Agar (with chloramphenicol) contains dextrose as the fermentable carbohydrate and a ready source of energy
• Soy peptone supplies nitrogen and vitamin sources required for the growth of fungi
• Chloramphenicol is added as a selective agent because of its heat stability and broad-spectrum antibacterial activity
• Monopotassium phosphate is a buffer and magnesium sulfate provides sulfate and other trace elements
• Rose bengal is an indicator and also acts as a selective agent which inhbits the growth of bacteria and limits the size of faster-growing molds
• This helps to detect the slower-growing yeasts
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• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.