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Chocolate agar

Chocolate agar

blood agar heated until the blood becomes brown or chocolate in colour, used especially to isolate Haemophilus influenza or neisseria species.


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Re: Chocolate Agar

... it isn't much different than medical microbiology. The main purpose of chocolate agar is to support the growth of microorganisms that have fastidious growth requirements. Most ...

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by pnkkmi
Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:19 pm
 
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Re: Chocolate Agar

absolute bull - show us the data , pal.

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by JorgeLobo
Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:56 am
 
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Re: Chocolate Agar

It is when incubated in certain conditions such as 5-10% CO2 for Haemophilus influenza.

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by Sepals
Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:43 pm
 
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Chocolate Agar

Wrong sepals, chocolate agar is not selective. It's an enruiched medium 1st described in the 1930's for Neisseria gonorrhea cultivation. ...

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by JorgeLobo
Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:09 pm
 
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Chocolate Agar

There is no perfect agar that will grow everything, however chocolate agar would inhibit more growth than the PCA. So you would not achieve a true count.

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by miles500
Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:39 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
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