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Conventional Media

An extensive range of high quality conventional agar with selective and differential media for daily routine

  

Put your confidence in bioMérieux, with High-Quality Culture Media Backed by 60+ Years of Leadership and expertise.

  

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conventional media

Overview

The extensive range of pre-poured conventional agar culture media offers high-quality nutritive, selective and differential media for daily routine.

  • Quality paired with cost-effectiveness. Flexible for all lab sizes and situations.
  • Some media are available in different formats (dehydrated, tube, bottle).
  • Certificate of Compatibility with complementary bioMérieux instruments and reagents.

CULTURE OF QUALITY BACKED BY CERTIFICATES AND VALIDATIONS FOR CULTURE MEDIA

Quality control (QC) and a secured supply chain processes: confidence during the entire value chain

  • Shelf-life and storage temperature: The stability of many of our culture media is validated with thermal shock validation in a reallife lab situation. It allows storage of 2-4 weeks at room temperature (15-25°C) in daily routine use.
  • Thermal shock validation: Possible temperature variation accounts during delivery/transportation. Our media are validated using thermal shock simulation sequences. It guarantees the best performance regardless of the shipment conditions.
  • The hidden part of the quality certificate: Guarantees consistent product quality for batch-to-batch reproducibility and enables your lab to avoid biological controls, e.g. fertility with QC strains and batch-to-batch comparison, before use.
  • High confidence - proven performance: Instructions for Use (IFU) can be used as proof to mitigate risk analysis within your quality management system. Detailed peformances limit the need for heavy validation with biological testing.
  • Secured supply chain process: A robust supply chain process guarantees the best delivery times, with an optimized residual shelf life at the customer site for each culture media to guarantee lab staff satisfaction.
  • Fast lab staff training: Easy qualification management with reading guides and tutorials.

Unique certificates of compatibility

bioMérieux verifies the compatibility of its culture media with its reagents and systems and issues a validated Certificate of Compatibility, allowing you to gain confidence in compatibility while lightening your workload. You can view and download these certificates at resourcecenter.biomerieux.com.

   

Catalog

  

Conventional Media

TRYPCASE SOY

Isolation of non‑fastidious microorganisms.

ReferenceKit/Format
4301120 x 90 mm plates
43019100 x 90 mm plates

PURPLE LACTOSE (BCP)

Lactose Agar with Bomocresol Purple for isolation & lactose-fermenting differentiation of all organisms commonly found in specimens of various origin. Four weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4302120 x 90 mm plates

CLED

Isolation of micro-organisms of the urinary tract. Four weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4333120 x 90 mm plates
43339100 x 90 mm plates

DRIGALSKI

Selective isolation of Enterobacterales and other Gram-negative bacteria. Two weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4334120 x 90 mm plates

MAC CONKEY (with Crystal Violet)

Selective isolation of Enterobacterales and Escherichia coli. Two weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4314120 x 90 mm plates
43149100 x 90 mm plates

EOSIN METHYLEN BLUE

Selective isolation and differentiation medium for the detection of Enterobacterales with lactose‑fermenting and/or sucrose‑fermenting differentiation. Four weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4308120 x 90 mm plates

SELECTIVE MEDIA FOR YEASTS & MOLDS

Selective isolation of yeasts and molds. *Four weeks room temperature storage.

SABOURAUD GENTA CHLORAMPHENICOL 2*

ReferenceKit/Format
4365120 x 90 mm plates

 

SABOURAUD GENTA CHLORAMPHENICOL 2*

ReferenceKit/Format
43659100 x 90 mm plates

 

SABOURAUD DEXTROSE

ReferenceKit/Format
4355520 x 90 mm plates

 

DERMATOPHYTE

ReferenceKit/Format
4306220 x 90 mm plates

SELECTIVE MEDIA FOR SALMONELLA & SHIGELLA

Selective isolation of Salmonella and Shigella. *Two weeks room temperature storage.

HEKTOEN 

ReferenceKit/Format
4311120 x 90 mm plates

 

SALMONELLA/SHIGELLA*

ReferenceKit/Format
4309120 x 90 mm plates

* Four weeks room temperature storage
 

XLD

ReferenceKit/Format
4356320 x 90 mm plates

CT SMAC (MAC CONKEY WITH SORBITOL)

Selective isolation of Escherichia coli 0157:H7.

ReferenceKit/Format
4339120 x 90 mm plates

YERSINIA CIN

Selective isolation of Yersinia.

ReferenceKit/Format
4342120 x 90 mm plates

PYLORI

Selective isolation of Helicobacter pylori.

ReferenceKit/Format
41319320 x 90 mm plates

CETRIMIDE (CET)

Selective isolation medium for the detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from specimens of various origins.

ReferenceKit/Format
4356520 x 90 mm plates

D-COCCOSEL (DCO)

Selective isolation of enterococci and group D streptococci.

ReferenceKit/Format
4315120 x 90 mm plates

MANNITOL SALT 2

Selective isolation of staphylococci. Four weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4367120 x 90 mm plates

LEGIONELLA (GVPC) MEDIUM

Selective isolation of Legionella in clinical samples.

ReferenceKit/Format
4303120 x 90 mm plates
43032100 x 90 mm plates

 

BCSA

Selective isolation of Burkholderia cepacia.

ReferenceKit/Format
3363120 x 90 mm plates

Blood Agar Range to support growth of fastidious organisms

High quality blood agar for standardized hemolysis and easy reading for most bacteria

COLUMBIA + 5% SHEEP BLOOD

Isolation of fastidious bacteria. Determination of hemolysis.

ReferenceKit/Format
4304120 x 90 mm plates
43009100 x 90 mm plates

COLUMBIA CNA + 5% SHEEP BLOOD

Isolation of Gram-positive bacteria. Detection of hemolysis.

ReferenceKit/Format
4307120 x 90 mm plates
43079100 x 90 mm plates

COLUMBIA + 5% HORSE BLOOD

Isolation of fastidious bacteria. Determination of hemolysis.

ReferenceKit/Format
4305020 x 90 mm plates

TRYPCASE SOY + 5% SHEEP BLOOD

Isolation of bacteria. Determination of hemolysis.

ReferenceKit/Format
4300120 x 90 mm plates
43009100 x 90 mm plates

SCHAEDLER + 5% SHEEP BLOOD

Isolation of anaerobic bacteria.

ReferenceKit/Format
4340120 x 90 mm plates
43279100 x 90 mm plates

CHOCOLATE PolyViteX™

Isolation of fastidious bacteria. Two weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4310120 x 90 mm plates
43109100 x 90 mm plates

CHOCOLATE PolyViteX™ VCAT3

Selective isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis. Two weeks room temperature storage.

ReferenceKit/Format
4361120 x 90 mm plates

CHOCOLATE HAEMOPHILUS 2 

Selective medium for the isolation of the different Haemophilus species.

ReferenceKit/Format
4368120 x 90 mm plates

SCHAEDLER NEO. VANC. + 5% SHEEP BLOOD

Selective isolation medium for the detection of anaerobic bacteria Bacteroides and Prevotella.

ReferenceKit/Format
41319420 x 90 mm plates

GARDNERELLA

Selective isolation of Gardnerella vaginalis.

ReferenceKit/Format
4341120 x 90 mm plates

CAMPYLOSEL

Selective isolation of Campylobacter from stool.

ReferenceKit/Format
4336120 x 90 mm plates

CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE

Selective isolation of Clostridioides difficile in stool samples.

ReferenceKit/Format
4343120 x 90 mm plates

Media for AST - ETEST® strips

ETEST® ready-to-use reagent strips to determine on-scale MIC

bioMérieux media for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) are validated for use with ETEST® strips. With a predefined, stable gradient of 15 antimicrobial concentrations, ETEST® provides MIC with greater precision for challenging situations (critically ill patients, fastidious organsims, MDRO’s, etc..). 

ETEST® is compliant with CLSI® (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Inc.) & EUCAST® (European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing) guidelines.

MUELLER HINTON E

For AST by disk diffusion and the determination of Minimal Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC) using the ETEST® method

ReferenceKit/Format
41382220 x 90 mm plates
413824100 x 90 mm plates
41382520 x 120 mm square plates

MUELLER HINTON + 5% SHEEP BLOOD 

For AST by disk diffusion for strains requiring blood for their growth.

ReferenceKit/Format
4332120 x 90 mm plates

MUELLER HINTON + 5% HORSE BLOOD + ß‑NAD

For AST disk diffusion antimicrobial susceptibility testing of fastidious microorganisms*. 

Campylobacter, Pasteurella, Listeria monocytogenese, Corynebacterium, Haemophilius, Moraxella, pneumococci and other streptococci.

ReferenceKit/Format
4390120 x 90 mm plates
43919100 x 90 mm plates
4390420 x 120 mm square plates

MUELLER HINTON CLOXA (MHC)

For the confirmation of ESBL-producing bacteria.

ReferenceKit/Format
42198920 x 90 mm plates
AEB120291 10 x 120 mm square plates

OTHER MEDIA FOR AST

RPMI 

Specially formulated for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts and molds with the ETEST® strips.

ReferenceKit/Format
42198820 x 90 mm plates

BRUCELLA BLOOD

MIC determination for anaerobic microorganisms using the ETEST® strips.

ReferenceKit/Format
41196820 x 90 mm plates

Add-on Products

Atmosphere Generators for Fastidious Bacteria

GENbag and GENbox facilitate culture of bacteria that require anaerobic, microaerophilic or capnophilic atmospheres. This bacterial growth can be observed without opening either system.

GENbag

FOR INCUBATING FROM 1 TO 5 PLATES

NOTE: each GENbag kit contains 20 bags + 20 gaz generators + 2 clip seals.

GENbag ANAER

For anaerobic bacteria.

ReferencePackagingIncubation
4553420 unitsMax 5 plates

GENbag MICROAER

For microaerophilic bacteria.

ReferencePackagingIncubation
4553220 unitsMax 2 plates

GENbag CO2

For capnophilic bacteria. 

ReferencePackagingIncubation
4553320 unitsMax 2 plates

Accessories

Anaerobic indicator strips*

ReferencePackaging
9611850 units


GENbag clip seal**

ReferencePackaging
4551110 units


* strips indicating the correct anaerobic reaction completion.
** plastic seal to close GENBag pouches - can be reused approx. 10 times.

  

GENbox

FOR INCUBATING MULTIPLE PLATES

NOTE: each GENbox kit contains 10 gaz generators.

GENbox ANAER

For anaerobic bacteria.

ReferencePackaging
9612410 units

GENbox MICROAER

For microaerophilic bacteria. 

ReferencePackaging
9612510 units

GENbox CO2

For capnophilic bacteria. 

ReferencePackaging
9612610 units

GENbox 7 L / 2.5 L 

Jars and lids for plates incubation.

ProductReferenceIncubation
Jar 7 L96128Max 42 plates
Lid 7 L96130-
Jar 2.5 L96127Max 12 plates
Lid 2.5 L96129-

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