The use of Horse Blood Agar is very rare in the US. We have a difficult time
getting supplied. We did have a good media house located in our state, but
they went out of business. Now we get our media from PML and they tell us
that most of the horse blood is sold in Canada. Ours has to be shipped in
from Oregon (3,000 + miles away).
--
John Gentile Rhode Island Apple Group
yjgent at home.com President
"I never make mistakes, I only have unexpected learning opportunities"
> From: "Patrick Druggan" <Patrick.Druggan at btinternet.com>
> Organization: BT Internet
> Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:33:18 +0100
> Subject: Re: Bacitracin and Group A Streps
>> I'm British, in the mid-90s I worked in Germany for about two years, and
> came to experience the similarities and differences the two Micobiological
> cultures - excuse the pun. The German's use sheep blood like the Americans,
> and have different expectations from selective media.
>> At first I thought that the 'national' preferences were dependant on who the
> main regional supplier was, but it is more complex than that. Lab
> organisation has an influence, the education system etc.
>> Are there true differences in the methodologies used on the different coasts
> in the US? Or is the whole thing just more heterogeneous in the States? Pd.
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