Description
• Intended Use: Columbia Blood Agar Base is used with blood for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious
microorganisms.
• Product Summary: Columbia blood agar base media are typically supplemented with 5-10% sheep, rabbit, or horse blood for use
in isolating, cultivating and determining hemolytic reactions of fastidious pathogenic microorganisms. Without enrichment,
Columbia Blood Agar Base is used as a general purpose media.
Columbia Blood Agar Base was developed after the Columbia Agar formulation described by Ellner et al. from Columbia University. Columbia (Blood Agar Base) BAB is specified in the Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods.
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