What is Columbia agar?
In this regard, what is Columbia agar used for?
Columbia Blood Agar is used for isolating, cultivating and determining the hemolytic reactions of fastidious pathogenic microorganisms. Without enrichment, Columbia Agar Base can be used as a general purpose medium.
Just so, what is Columbia blood agar?
Columbia Blood Agar Base is used with blood for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious microorganisms in a laboratory setting. Columbia Blood Agar Base is not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions in humans.
4-7 BD Brucella Agar with 5% Horse Blood is particularly useful for the cultivation of all more fastidious aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic microorganisms including streptococci, pneumococci, Listeria, Brucella, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae and Helicobacter pylori.