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BD Difco™ Bottle TCBS Agar 500G
For selective isolation and cultivation of V. cholerae and other enteropathogenic vibrios
Description
TCBS is the primary plating medium universally used for the selective isolation of vibrios that cause cholera, diarrhea and food poisoning.
It was developed by Kobayashi et al.4,
who modified the selective medium of Nakanishi.5 The combination
of alkaline peptone water and TCBS Agar is used in many procedures for the isolation of V. cholerae and other Vibrio species from feces.