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Microbiological media

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growth medium
liquid or gel used for the growth of microorganisms or cells
MacConkey agar
culture medium used in microbiology
agar plate
Petri dish with agar used to culture microbes
Eosin methylene blue
culture medium used in microbiology
Sabouraud agar
culture medium used in microbiology
nutrient agar
Medium for growing microorganisms
Potato dextrose agar
microbial growth medium
mannitol salt agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Chocolate agar
Growth medium
Endo agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Mueller-Hinton agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Lysogeny broth
culture medium used in microbiology
Trypticase soy agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Hektoen enteric agar
selective and differential agar primarily used to recover Salmonella and Shigella from patient specimens
TSI agar
differential medium used in microbiology
Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium
culture medium used in cell culture
Löwenstein–Jensen medium
growth medium for the bacteria that causes tuberculosis
Cysteine lactose electrolyte deficient agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Cetrimide agar
culture medium used in microbiology
XLD agar
culture medium used in microbiology
brain heart infusion broth
highly nutritious general-purpose growth medium
Thayer-Martin agar
culture medium used in microbiology
Plate Count Agar
non-selective microbiological growth medium
thioglycolate broth
culture medium used in microbiology
thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose agar
culture medium used in microbiology
MRS agar
selective culture medium designed to favour the luxuriant growth of Lactobacilli for lab study
Baird–Parker agar
Selective culture medium
Simmons' citrate agar
differential culture medium
YEPD
thumb|right|200px|YPD medium bottle and YPD agar plate YEPD or yeast extract peptone dextrose, also often abbreviated as YPD, is a complete medium for yeast growth. It contains yeast extract, peptone, double-distilled water, and glucose (dextrose). It can be used as solid medium by including agar. The yeast extract will typically contain all the amino acids necessary for growth. By being a complete medium, YEPD cannot be used as a selection medium to test for auxotrophs. Instead, YEPD is used as a growth medium to grow yeast cultures.
Bile esculin agar
growth medium
Hoyle's agar
Selective bacterial growth medium
VRBD agar
Bordet-Gengou agar
bacteriologic medium
Middlebrook 7H10 Agar
growth medium used to culture Mycobacterium species