Description
Blood Agar (Base) is a dehydrated nutrient medium base for microbiology, designed for preparing blood agar and related special media used in microbial cultivation and examination. Supplied as a 500 g plastic pack, it provides a practical bulk quantity for routine media kitchens in clinical, industrial, and research microbiology laboratories. The base is intended for microbiological use within the broader range of dehydrated nutrient media and special media. This product is available from manufacturer Carl ROTH for life-science and microbiology workflows that require a reliable blood agar base. The unit quantity is 500 g, with a pack weight of 0,604 kg, supporting repeated preparation of plates or tubes according to standard laboratory recipes. After reconstitution and sterilization, the base is typically completed with blood or other supplements as required by the chosen method. Categories of use include life science, microbiology, dehydrated nutrient media for microbiology, and special media. Integrate the medium into established SOPs for blood agar preparation to support isolation and morphological assessment of microorganisms under routine culture conditions.
This article is part of Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), in Culture media & microbiology.
Key features
- Meat peptone: 10 g/l
- Heart infusion: 10 g/l
- Sodium chloride (NaCl): 5 g/l
- Agar: 15 g/l
- pH value: 7.3 ±0.2
- Pack size: 500 g plastic
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Product type: Blood Agar (Base)
- Form: Dehydrated nutrient medium base
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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Blood Agar (Base), for microbiology, 500 g, plastic is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Carl Roth for laboratory use. It sits in Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Microbiologie.
A ready-to-use plate, tube or bottle is the medium already prepared and sterile. It saves the autoclave and it expires. The fill volume, the supplements and the storage temperature are the specification. A plate that has dried out or grown a colony of its own is finished.
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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