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Quantity: 5 kg
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The major use of Mueller-Hinton Agar is for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST). It has become the standard medium for the Kirby-Bauer method^5, 6 and can be used in internationally recognized standard procedures.
• Specified by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) formerly the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)^2,3,4and The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST)^1
• Standard medium for the Kirby-Bauer method^5, 6The inclusion of starch in the medium ensures that toxic factors produced during microbial growth will be absorbed, and its presence is often essential to establish growth from very small inocula.Antibiotic susceptibility tests are performed in accordance with and meet the acceptance limits of the current ISO/TS 16782 using the following microorganisms:Staphylococcus aureus ATCC®25923 WDCM00034 Staphylococcus aureus ATCC®29213 WDCM00131Staphylococcus aureus ATCC®43300 WDCM00211 Staphylococcus aureus NCTC 12493 WDCM00212 Escherichia coli ATCC®25922 WDCM00013 Escherichia coli ATCC®35218 Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC®27853 WDCM00025 Enterococcus faecalis ATCC®33186 WDCM00210 Enterococcus faecalis ATCC®29212 WDCM00087 Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC®49619 Haemophilus influenzae ATCC®49247 Haemophilus influenzae ATCC®49766Not all products are available for sale in all territories. Please inquire.Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand
