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Principle
- The media is composed according to the USP, recommended as an antibiotic assay medium. It is composed of peptone, a pancreatic digest of casein, yeast extract, meat extract, dextrose, and agar.
- Peptone, pancreatic digestion of casein, yeast extract, and meat extract provide nitrogen, carbon, vitamins essential nutrients.
- Glucose serves as an energy source. This medium is formulated in such a way to facilitate the diffusion of the antibiotics for antibiotic assay studies.
- Media is generally used for testing Neomycin, Erythromycin, and Kanamycin-like antibiotics.
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Use: Recommended for testing antibiotic potency by Kirby-Bauer (Disk diffusion method) or well diffusion method. (For Erythromycin, Gentamicin, Neomycin B, Paromomycin, Sisomicin, and Netilmicin antibiotics)
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