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What is Blood agar is - and explain in detail?
Enriched Media - When a basal medium is added with additional nutrients such as blood, serum or egg, it is called enriched medium. They suppo the growth of fastidious bacteria, eg - Blood agar Chocolate agar Loeffler's serum slope Indicator media - Contains indicator that give specific colour / characteristic to growing organisms. eg - MacConkey agar - differentiates between LF & NLF Selective media - Medium with selective agent that inhibits unwanted bacteria , but ours the growth of species that is to be grown. eg - Thayer main medium for Neisseria - PPLO medium for Mycoplasma Enrichment media - It is kind of liquid selective medium eg - Alkaline peptone water- for Vibrio - Selentine F. broth for Salmonella and Shigella