REFERENCES
1. Handbook Culture Media Merck, 1982.
2. Alexandru Rafila: Medii de cultura, medii de transport si conservare. In Dumitru Buiuc, Marian Negut: Tratat de microbiologie clinica
ed. III, 2009, 1045-1084.
3. Helgomar Raducanescu, Valeria Bica-Popii,1986. Bacteriologie veterinara, 328, Ed. Ceres, Bucuresti.
COMPOSITION
Peptone from meat 5.0 g, peptone from casein 5.0 g, meat extract 5.0 g, NaCl 3.0 g,
Na
2HPO4  2.0 g, lactose 10 g, sucrose 10 g, phenol red 0.08 g, brilliant green 0.0125
g, agar-agar 12 g.
Distilled water ad 1000 ml, pH 6.9 ± 0.1, autoclave, pour in plates.

VARIANT 2
Peptone from meat 5.0 g, peptone from casein 5.0 g, peptic 5.0 g, yeast extract 3.0 g,
NaCl 5.0 g, lactose 10 g, sucrose 10 g, phenol red 0.08 g, brilliant green 0.0125 g,
agar-agar 13 g.
Distilled water ad 1000 ml, pH 6.9 ± 0.2, autoclave, pour in plates.

VARIANT 3 (Kauffmann)
Peptone from meat 7.0 g, NaCl 5.0 g, lactose 15 g, phenol red 0.04 g, brilliant green
0.05 g, agar-agar 13 g.
Distilled water ad 1000 ml, pH 6.5 ± 0.1, autoclave, pour in plates.

VARIANT 4
Peptone from meat 10.0 g, meat extract 5.0 g, yeast extract 3.0 g, Na
2HPO4 1.0 g,
NaH
2PO4  0.6 g, lactose 10 g, sucrose 10 g, phenol red 0.09 g, brilliant green 0.0047
g, agar-agar 12 g.
Distilled water ad 1000 ml, pH 6.9 ± 0.1, do not autoclave, pour in plates.

PROCEDURE
Disperse culture or pathologic material on the medium’s surface, then incubate 18-
24 hours at 37 ºC .

RESULTS
Lactose & sucrose negative germs form red colonies surrounded by a bright red zone
(
Salmonella,  Proteus, Pseudomonas). Salmonella typhi  do not grow on this medium.
Lactose & sucrose positive germs form  yellow colonies, surrounded by yellow zone.
(
E. coli, Enterobacter, Citrobater, Klebsiella).
DESCRIPTION
Selective medium for the isolation of
Enterobacteriaceae.from pathological materials.
Salmonellae are not able to ferment lactose or sucrose which can be degraded by other Enterobacteriaceae. Sugars degradation to
acid is indicated by the phenol red pH indicator (yellow in acid and red in alkaline medium).
Brilliant green agar
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