All Purpose Quad Plate (Eosine Methylene Blue (EMB) Agar / Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA) / Mycobiotic Agar / Blood Agar, 5%), 15x100mm Quadplate, 5ml/section. Hardy Diagnostics Blood Agar products are recommended for use as general purpose growth media for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of a wide variety of microorganisms. Hardy Diagnostics EMB Agar formulations are recommended for use as selective and differential media for the isolation of gram-negative bacilli (including coliform organisms and enteric pathogens) from clinical and nonclinical specimens. Hardy Diagnostics Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA) is recommended for use as a selective and differential medium for the isolation of pathogenic staphylococci. Hardy Diagnostics Mycobiotic Agar is recommended for use in the isolation of pathogenic fungi from clinical specimens.
A combination of two or more selective, differential and/or enriched agar culture media formulations separately contained within a single petri dish (commonly referred to as a split plate) or dip slide and intended to be used for the simultaneous growth, selective isolation and/or differentiation of microorganisms from a clinical specimen.
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