MacConkey Agar for microbiology

Application

MacConkey Agar has been used to culture coliforms. It has also been used to plate serial dilutions of faecal and colonic homogenates of Citrobacter rodentium.

Packaging

250, 500 g in poly bottle

Biochem/physiol Actions

MacConkey Agar is considered as a selective and differential media. It is useful in differentiating between the lactose fermenting and non-lactose fermenting bacteria. Thus, it is useful in the isolation of gram negative bacteria. Primary plating medium is used to differentiate members of the coliform group.

Analysis Note

Microbiologically tested.