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Principle
The media is composed according to the USP, recommended as an antibiotic assay medium. It is composed of peptone, pancreatic digest of casein, yeast extract, meat extract, dextrose, and agar. Peptone, pancreatic digest of casein, yeast extract and meat extract provide nitrogen, carbon, vitamins essential nutrients. Glucose serves as energy source. This medium is formulated in such a way as to facilitate the diffusion of the antibiotics for antibiotic assay studies. Media is generally used of testing Neomycin, Erythromycin, 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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