Thermo Scientific™ Anaerobic LKV Blood Agar

Description

• Isolate and cultivate anaerobic organisms, including fastidious strains with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Anaerobic Blood Agar ready prepared plates
• Anaerobic Blood Agar serves as a nutritious medium supporting good growth and typical pigmentation of fastidious and slow growing anaerobes, as well as other anaerobes of clinical importance
• Selective agents like kanamycin, vancomycin, neomycin, and paromomycin make the medium selective for fastidious, anaerobic bacteria from mixed populations by inhibiting facultative and aerobic gram-negative organisms
• Use Anaerobic Blood Agar for isolation and cultivation of anaerobic organisms including the fastidious strains
• Selective: the selective agents like kanamycin and vancomycin inhibit Gram-positive organisms and facultative anaerobic bacteria and select for Gram-negative bacilli
• Neomycin aids in the isolation of anaerobic organisms such as Bacteroides and Clostridium species, and inhibits Gram-negative paromomycin and vancomycin facilitates the facultative Gram-negative anaerobes while allowing the growth of obligate anaerobic bacteria
• Ready-to-use : convenience of prepared media
• Anaerobe Blood Agar contains peptones which supply nitrogenous substances and amino acids necessary for the growth of anaerobic bacteria
• Yeast extract provides B-complex vitamins and serves as a growth enhancer
• Hemin, vitamin K, and sheep blood stimulate the growth of anaerobes
• Sodium chloride is a source of essential electrolytes and maintains osmotic equilibrium
• Not all products are available for sale in all territories
• Please inquire
• Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand.