Gentamicin blood agar used as a general-purpose selective medium.

Applied microbiology ·Vol. 25 ·No. 6 ·1973-06-00 ·Pages 905-7

Black WA, Van Buskirk F

Abstract

The potential value of a blood agar medium containing a final concentration of 5.5 mug of gentamicin per ml was assessed in a diagnostic laboratory over an 8-week period. The medium gave increased isolation rates of beta-hemolytic streptococci, other streptococci, Bacteroides, clostridia, and yeasts. It also proved valuable in detecting gentamicin-resistant gram-negative bacilli when these were present in heavy mixed culture.

MeSH Terms

Aerobiosis Agar Anaerobiosis Animals Bacteria/isolation & purification Bacteriological Techniques/standards Bacteroides/isolation & purification Blood Clostridium perfringens/isolation & purification Drug Resistance, Microbial Evaluation Studies as Topic Gentamicins/pharmacology Klebsiella/isolation & purification Proteus/isolation & purification Serratia marcescens/isolation & purification Sheep Streptococcus/isolation & purification Yeasts/isolation & purification

Chemicals

Gentamicins Agar

Authors & Affiliations

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Black W A

Van Buskirk F

References (5)

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Article Info

Journal

Applied microbiology

Abbr.

Appl Microbiol

ISSN

0003-6919

DOI

10.1128/am.25.6.905-907.1973

Published

1973-06-00

Pages

905-7

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7605802

PMCID

PMC380938

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/am.25.6.905-907.1973 PMC Full Text

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