Bile Esculin Agar, Modified is supplied by the company, HIMEDIA.

This is a Bile Esculin Agar, Modified employed as a differential medium for isolation and presumptive identification of group D Streptococci / Enterococci from food, pharmaceutical and clinical samples.

Product specifications:

• Catalog number:M972A-500G
• Brand: HIMEDIA
• Quantity/unit: Pack of 500g

Product composition:gm/L

• Peptone :5.000
• HM Peptone B : 3.000
• Bile : 20.000
• Esculin :1.000
• Ferric citrate: 0.500
• Agar :15.000
• Final pH ( at 25C): 7.10.2

Product features:

• Apperance: Light yellow to brownish yellow coloured homogeneous free flowing powder
• Gelling: Firm, comparable with 1.5% Agar gel
• Colour and Clarity of prepared medium: Yellow coloured clear to slightly opalescent gel with/without a bluish tinge forms in Petri plates.
• Reaction: Reaction of 4.5% w/v aqueous solution at 25C pH : 7.10.2
• pH: 6.90-7.30
• Cultural Response: Cultural characteristics observed after an incubation at 35C-37C for 18-24 hours in an increased atmosphere of carbon dioxide.