Chocolate agar

Chocolate agar

Pharmaceutical Applications of Agar-Agar

Published in Amit Kumar Nayak, Md Saquib Hasnain, Dilipkumar Pal, Natural Polymers for Pharmaceutical Applications, 2019

Md Shahruzzaman, Shanta Biswas, Md Nurus Sakib, Papia Haque, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, Abul K. Mallik

Several types of Agar are present among which, pharmaceutical agar, blood agar, sabouraud agar, chocolate agar, nutrient, and non-nutrient agar, tryptic soy agar, neomycin agar, etc. are most common. Pharmaceutical agar, as the name specifies, is utilized in the pharmaceutical industry for laxatives, excipient ingredient in pills, tablets, and syrups, preparation of medicaments, and so on. This chapter gives an overview of the key features of inherent properties of Agar-Agar, their modification, with special attention to potential applications in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sonication to improve the yield in culture-negative peri-prosthetic joint infection

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Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2019

Noha Tharwat Abou El-Khier, Samah Sabry El-Kazzaz, Adham Elgeidi, Abd El Rhman Elganainy

Peri-prosthetic tissue samples were homogenized in 3 ml Trypticase soy broth using mortar and pestle for 1 min. Aliquots of 0.1 ml of homogenate were inoculated onto aerobic blood agar, chocolate agar, MacConkey agar (Oxoid), and anaerobic blood agar (Remel). Aerobic cultures were incubated at 37°C for 3 days, examined daily. Anaerobic cultures were incubated in an anaerobic jar at 35°C for 14 days. Identification of the isolates was done according to the standard microbiological methods [20]. A positive culture was defined as growth of the same organism in two or more tissue specimens, except for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), for which one positive specimen was needed.

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