Bi-plate BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA II/CHROMagar™ Staph aureus
BD has combined two products to formulate the BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSAII/CHROMagar™ SA Bi-plate. This product is used for the qualitative direct detection of nasal colonization by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and as a selective medium for the isolation, enumeration, and identification of S. aureus.
Bi-plate BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA II/CHROMagar™ Staph aureus
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The BBL™ CHROMagar™ family of products utilize a chromogen mix that consists of artificial substrates (chromogens) that release differently colored compounds upon degradation by specific microbial enzymes, thus assuring the direct differentiation of certain species or the detection of certain groups of organisms with only a minimum of confirmatory tests.
BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA II / BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ Staph aureus Bi-plate
Selective chromogenic medium containing both the CHROMagar MRSA II and BD BBL CHROMagar™ Staph aureus in a Bi-plate format
• Easy to detect colonies
– MRSA - mauve color colonies on the MRSA II medium
– S. aureus - mauve to orange/mauve colored colonies on the BD BBL™ CHROMagar S. aureus medium
• Results in 20-26 hours
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