Use and description of Blood Agar Base :
Field : Clinical microbiology - Pharmaceutical microbiology
Special field : Blood Agar, Chocolate Agar
Organisms : Staphylococcus,Listeria,Enterobacteriaceae
Application :
-Medium for the cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious microorganisms.
-supplemented with sheep or horse blood it can be used as Blood Agar
-supplemented with heat-hemolysed sheep or horse blood can be used as Chocolate Agar
-Media for isolation
Special field of application :
- Hemolysin types, pigment production