Description
Hektoen Enteric Agar is a dehydrated culture medium for laboratory preparation of selective plates used in enteric microbiology. Supplied as a 5000 g bulk pack, it is intended for isolation and differentiation work with Gram-negative intestinal bacteria in clinical, food, and research settings. The product is identified under the established Hektoen Enteric Agar designation and supports routine media kitchens that prepare solid culture media according to their validated protocols. The large pack size suits higher-throughput laboratories or central preparation units that prefer fewer reorder cycles. Handling follows standard practice for powdered agar media: weigh, reconstitute, and process as required by the method in use. This medium is offered by manufacturer Dinkelberg within the laboratory materials range and is classified under the culture-media commodity group. Country of origin is Hungary. The bulk presentation helps maintain continuity of enteric screening and plating workflows where consistent availability of base medium is important for daily diagnostic or quality-control activity.
This article is part of Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), in Culture media & microbiology. See also Petri dishes.
Key features
- Pack size: 5000 g
- Product type: Hektoen Enteric Agar
- Form: Dehydrated culture medium
- Intended use: Enteric microbiology
- Country of origin: Hungary
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Hektoen Enteric Agar, 5000g is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Dinkelberg for laboratory use. It sits in Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Microbiology lab supplies.
A dehydrated medium is a powder the laboratory dissolves, sterilises and pours. The formulation name, the supplements it still needs, and the grams per litre are the specification. Two powders with similar names, one selective and one not, grow different organisms.
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.
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