Thermo Scientific™ Kanamycin Disk

Description

• Confirm Gram-stain reaction of anaerobes and presumptively identify anaerobic, Gram-negative bacilli with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Kanamycin Disk
• In 1971 Sutter and Finegold 1 recommended a method to identify anaerobic, Gram-negative bacilli based on the difference in response to an antibiotic
• Accordingly, organisms can be grouped based on their characteristic inhibitory patterns with erythromycin, rifampin, colistin, penicillin, kanamycin and vancomycin 2,3
• Presumptively identify anaerobic bacteria with Kanamycin disks
• 3,4 Ready to use : Kanamycin-impregnated disk
• Easy to interpret : Sensitive organisms exhibit an inhibitory zone greater than 10 mm around the antibiotic disk while resistant organisms exhibit no inhibitory zone or a zone that is less than 10 mm around the disk
• Kanamycin Disk contains 1000 μg kanamycin
• Disks impregnated with erythromycin, rifampin, colistin, penicillin, kanamycin and vancomycin can be used to identify anaerobic, Gram-negative bacilli based on the zone of inhibition they exhibit
• Colistin and vancomycin confirm the Gram-stain reaction, which is helpful with the Clostridia that stain Gram-negative
• Penicillin, rifampin and kanamycin separate Bacteroides and Fusobacterium
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• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.