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What is the nitrate broth?

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Cultures are grown in beef extract medium containing potassium nitrate. Gases produced from nitrate reduction are captured in Durham tubes placed in the nitrate medium.

Answer found in Benson's Microbiological Applications: Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology Eleventh Edition by Alfred E. Brown on page 258.

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