The revised Difco and BBL Manual combines two popular, separate publications into one.
     A comprehensive guide to this company’s entire line of Difco and BBL brand media, the new Difco & BBL Manual includes dehydrated culture media (DCM) and prepared, plated, tubed and blotted media. Each manual comes with a CD-ROM, which contains the entire contents of the book, in electronic form, with a search feature included.
     The manual contains a description for each medium, including the medium formulation, relevant information concerning the history, ingredients and usage of each medium, and recommended quality control organisms and expected results. The manual also features icons denoting media listed in “official” and “standard methods” publications and the BD catalog numbers for all packaging configurations. A reference guide contains tables for industrial and clinical applications, along with flowcharts delineating media and reagents for identification of food pathogens.
    A CD-ROM of the manual with a search feature is included. Over 400 color photographs (including 50 new photographs) clearly depict colonial morphology and other pertinent characteristics such as hemolysis and color reactions.
     The new manual replaces the Difco Manual (11th edition) and the Manual of BBL Products and Laboratory Procedures (6th edition).
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Keywords: microbiology, media