Thayer-Martin agar

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When Thayer-Martin agar is a selective medium ( Mueller-Hinton agar with 5% sheep blood). The addition of antibiotics prevents the growth of unwanted accompanying flora. Thayer-Martin agar is used in particular to display sensitive germs such as Neisseria ( Neisseria gonorrhoeae , gonococci).

history

The medium was developed in the early 1960s by James D. Thayer and John E. Martin.

composition

Thayer-Martin-Agar is phosphate-buffered and mixed with special peptone, plus starch and the like. Hemoglobin as well as concomitant flora-inhibiting antibiotics and the Proteus -inhibiting antibiotic trimethoprim lactate.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DocCheck Medical Services GmbH: Thayer-Martin-Medium. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Acharya Tankeshwar: Modified Thayer-Martin Agar: Composition, preparation, uses and colony characteristics. In: Learn Microbiology Online. June 13, 2016, accessed January 16, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ James D. Thayer and John E. Martin, Jr .: A selective medium for the cultivation of N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis. In: Public health reports. Volume 79, January 1964, pp. 49-57, PMID 14105729 , PMC 1915495 (free full text).
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  5. ^ Thayer-Martin medium. Accessed February 16, 2020 .