Chocolate Agar

Description

Chocolate Agar is an improved medium for use in qualitative procedures for the isolation and cultivation of fastidious microorganisms, especially Neisseria and Haemophilus species, from a variety of clinical specimens.

Chocolate II Agar with Bacitracin is a selective medium used for the isolation of Haemophilus species.

Chocolate II Agar with Pyridoxal is used for the isolation of nutritionally-variant streptococci (vitamin B6-requiring streptococci) from blood cultures.