Automated Production of High Quality Blood Agar

摘要

Integra has released a new application note that demonstrates how combining its Mediajet Petri dish filler with the DOSE IT peristaltic pump provides an optimised automated solution for the production of high quality blood agar. The quality of blood agar plates is of prime importance for the reliable determination of haemolysis type - a common technique in medical diagnostics to classify Gram positive cocci. High quality agar plates have a typical light red colour - a characteristic feature of intact erythrocytes. Agar plates with lysed red blood cells appear brown coloured, a feature that complicates the reading of haemolysis pattern.