Why is Mueller-Hinton agar used in antibiotic sensitivty testing?
2007-04-23 02:41:43 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Mueller Hinton agar is a general agar that enables the growth of a wide variety of bacteria. It is a beef infusion / peptone / starch mixture and can be made as a blood agar.
It seems to be the agar recommended for antibiotic sensitivity testing and just doing a quick google search this seems to be because tests show it to be superior to other forms of agar for this.
Mueller Hinton Agar is recommended for the disk diffusion method of antibiotic susceptibility testing.
Mueller Hinton medium is recommended by FDA, World Health Organization and NCCLS for testing most
commonly encountered aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria in food and clinical material. The
medium shows good batch-to-batch reproducibility.
Titre du document / Document title
Mueller-Hinton agar is superior to PDM blood agar for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Revue / Journal Title
Clinical microbiology and infection (Clin. microbiol. infect.) ISSN 1198-743X
Source / Source
2003, vol. 9, no1, pp. 61-64 [4 page(s) (article)] (13 ref.)
J Clin Microbiol. 1982 December; 16(6): 1155–1156.
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Use of Mueller-Hinton agar to determine novobiocin susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci.
2007-04-23 02:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋