MulderMan Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 What is a good type of agar to use for general culture of microbes? Is PDA any good? anyone got any recipies? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Search for agar - there have been a couple of threads on it iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 I have a small amount of Agar if you want any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 You can get agar at the supermarket, if you don't need high quality stuff. edit: using LB + Agar should be good for general microbial growth http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/LB_agar.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLoT Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 the type of agar really depends on your experiment ie what are you trying to test for (eg trying to isolate a specific strain) and what kind of nutrients/environment the microorganism prefers to live in. but if u just want to have somethin to grow on and cheap yea just go make urself some beef broth or buy coagulated blood (they look like sick tofus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhi Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Here at the state lab we use sheep blood agar for aerobes. For my section, the Enteric Pathogen section, I use XLD and MAC for pure cultures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kixxer Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 using LB + Agar should be good for general microbial growth [url']http://sosnick.uchicago.edu/LB_agar.html[/url] we use LB agar only for standard culture, and it works fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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