<< I am looking for a product called cellulose agar. I was wondering if anyone
knows where I can purchase this media or how I can make it myself (recipe).
I am looking for a media specific for the cultivation of Stachybotrys atra.
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First of all I would hope that you are a microbiologist or scientist working in
an approved lab with proper safety equipment. This organism (or it's spores)
can be very toxic from what I have read about it.
But I had a thought about it last week since it made it to the TV news show 48
Hrs. Since it loves moist plaster board I was thinking about how to get plaster
into a media with enough moisture. But like I said it was just a thought.
As for the safety issue I would not work on this organism outside of an
approved Bio Hazard Safety level 3 environment (like a TB lab).
John
John Gentile M(ASCP) President - Rhode Island Apple Group
yjgent at aol.com
Microbiologists do it with culture.
