Antibiotic Assay Medium No. 36 is supplied by the company, HIMEDIA.

This is an Antibiotic Assay Medium No. 36 ideally used as a general purpose medium for cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious microorganisms.Antibiotic Assay Medium No. 36 is widely employed as seed agar for agar diffusion assay for antibiotic bleomycin.

Product specifications:

• Catalog number:M1666-500G
• Brand: HIMEDIA
• Quantity/unit: Pack of 500g

Product composition:gm/L

• Casein enzymic hydrolysate: 15.000
• Papaic digest of soyabean meal :5.000
• Sodium chloride: 5.000
• Agar :15.000
• Final pH ( at 25C): 7.30.2

Product features:

• Appearance:Cream to yellow coloured homogeneous free flowing powder
• Gelling: Firm, comparable with 1.5% Agar gel
• Colour and Clarity of prepared medium:Basal Medium : Light yellow coloured clear to slightly opalescent gel. After addition of 5-7%w/v sterile defibrinated blood : Cherry red coloured opaque gel forms in Petri plates
• Reaction:Reaction of 4.0% w/v aqueous solution at 25C (after sterilization). pH : 7.30.2
• pH: 7.10-7.50
• Cultural Response: M1666: Cultural characteristics observed with added 5-7%w/v sterile defibrinated blood after an incubation at 35-37C for 18-48 hours.