Petri dishes

A Petri dish is the shallow lidded plate agar is poured into, or a sample is placed in. Diameter and whether it is vented, and whether it arrives sterile and empty or already filled, are the choices. A 90 mm dish is the ordinary one. Slippable lids and vented lids differ in how they dry a plate.

A culture medium is the food and the solid or liquid home of a microorganism. Dehydrated media are powders the laboratory dissolves and sterilises. Ready-to-use plates and tubes are already that. A Petri dish is the plate. Selective media let one kind of organism grow and hold another back. The formulation and the supplements, not the colour of the agar, are the specification. Reference strains are at ATCC. Methods are on PubMed. Biosafety practice is the WHO laboratory biosafety topic.

This shelf belongs to Culture media & microbiology, inside Life Science & Microbiology. Luminix Health distributes this range for laboratory use.

The neighbouring shelves are Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), Microbiology (other), Inoculation loops, spreaders & needles and Microbial identification, hygiene monitoring & rapid tests. The category above this shelf is Culture media & microbiology.

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