Mueller-Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood 90mm Plates Pk 10

Perform effortless Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests (AST) for fastidious organisms using Thermo Scientific™ Mueller-Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood prepared media plates. A precise clear zone will help to determine if the bacteria is resistant or sensitive to the antibiotics used. Mueller-Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood conforms to the American standard of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Standard of Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN).

The major use of Mueller-Hinton Agar with 5% Sheep Blood is for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST). The medium is designed and manufactured according to CLSI standards and can be used in internationally recognised standard procedures.

The inclusion of starch in the medium ensures that toxic factors produced during microbial growth will be absorbed, and its presence is often essential to establish growth from very small inocula.