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Technically yes, although in practice this is rarely or never done due to concerns over supply and blood-borne pathogens.
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What type of culture medium is agar beef heart and human blood?
Complex medium
Why do you use saline water when preparing a plate with blood agar?
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What type of media is used for growing a culture from a throat specimen?
blood and chocolate agar plates as well as in universities laboratory Nutrient agar plates are also provided
What is alger plates?
Do you mean "agar plates"? Agar agar is a seaweed that, when boiled, makes a product similar to gelatin. This stuff is edible, so vegans who liked jello can have it. It's used by boiling it in water, adding things to it, pouring it into petri dishes and letting it harden to use in making bacteria cultures. Some of the things that are added to it are beef broth--"nutrient agar"--and blood--"blood agar."
What is sheeps blood agar made of?
Sheeps blood
If you use petri dishes for blood do you have to use nutrient agar powder too?
if you use petri dishes do you put nutrient agar in it if your using blood?
What are the alternatives for sheep blood in preparing blood agar?
I'd say it depends why you're looking for an alternative. If you are looking to avoid the use of animal based products, you could try to find human blood agar. If you just want to find something other than sheep you could look for horse, goat, or bovine based blood agar.
What type of culture medium is agar beef heart and human blood?
Complex medium
What is a culture medium consisting of agar human blood and beef heart?
Complex medium
Why do you use saline water when preparing a plate with blood agar?
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Does Chromobacterium violaceum pit blood agar?
No it does not pit blood agar I am curently studying Chromobcaterium violaceum and recently grew it on a sheep blood agar it did not pit it. Cv turned the agar a brown color.
A common medium used for growing fastidious bacteria is?
Blood Agar, and trypticase soy agar grows semi fastidious
What is the purpose of stabbing the blood agar?
By stabbing the blood agar, the hemolysis will be easier to see and identify.
How do you make pitri dish gel agar?
Agar is generally made by mixing the powdered form with varying ingredients. The powder is based on seaweed extract for nutrient agar, and nutrient agar is generally a base for most other agars - eg. Horse Blood Agar is nutrient agar with horses blood added; Choc agar has defibrinated (cooked) horses blood added.
What type of media is used for growing a culture from a throat specimen?
blood and chocolate agar plates as well as in universities laboratory Nutrient agar plates are also provided
What is sheeps blood agar made of?
Sheeps blood
Can you use blood to grow bacteria on petridishes?
Bacteria will grow in blood but no the growing medium in petri dishes should be clear agar.
