Sheep Blood Columbia Agar

Description

Columbia Agar Base, without or with the addition of 5% (or 10%) sheep blood, is a highly nutritious, general-purpose medium for the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms from a variety of clinical and nonclinical materials.

Columbia Blood Agar Base EH (Enhanced Hemolysis) is used with blood in isolating and cultivating fastidious microorganisms.

Columbia Agar with Fildes Enrichment and Bacitracin is used in qualitative procedures for isolation and cultivation of Haemophilus species from clinical specimens.