BAM Media M131a: Rapid L. mono Medium
January 2003
| Peptones | 30 g |
| Meat extract | 5 g |
| Yeast extract | 1 g |
| Lithium chloride | 9 g |
| Selective supplementa | 20 ml |
| D-Xylose | 10 g |
| Phenol red | 0.12 g |
| Agar Ba | 13 g |
| Chromogenic substratea | 1 ml |
| Water, distilled | 1000 ml |
| aProprietary information. | |
Final pH is 7.3 ± 0.1. Store at 2 - 8 °C in dark in original packaging. Shelf life is 4 months under these conditions. The medium is available as ready-poured Petri dishes from, e.g. Bio-Rad http://www.biorad.com. Due to the presence of D-xylose and phenol red this agar can distinguish L. ivanovii and L. monocytogenes.