Thermo Fisher, R01104, Bacteroides Fragilis Isolation Agar

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Bacteroides fragilis is an obligately anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium. It is part of the normal microbiota of the human colon and is generally commensal, but can cause infection if displaced into the bloodstream or surrounding tissue following surgery, disease, or trauma.Bacteroides Fragilis Isolation Agar is a selective and differential medium for recovery and presumptive identification of Bacteroides fragilis group.
• Easy-to-read:Bacteroides fragiliscolonies are easy to read due to brown-black complex surrounding the colonies.
• Selective: gentamicin and bile make the medium selective forBacteroides fragilis. Gentamicin inhibits most facultative anaerobes and bile inhibits anaerobic gram-negative bacilli with the exception ofBacteroides fragilisgroup and otherBacteroidsandFusobacteria.
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