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Blood Agar: Composition and Uses by syafa latifah is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Blood agar is a growth medium used to culture bacteria like streptococci that require enriched conditions. It consists of trypticase soya agar enriched with 5% sheep blood. Heating the blood agar inactivates inhibitors and releases growth factors, allowing bacteria like Neisseria and Haemophilus to grow. Blood agar is used to isolate, identify, and test antibiotic susceptibility of streptococci based on the type of hemolysis they cause - alpha, beta, or gamma. It is also used to determine whether colonies e
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- syafa latifah
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