Cultivate a wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, yeasts, and molds with the nutritious base medium Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Blood Heart Infusion (BHI) Agar with Sheep Blood, Chloramphenicol and Cycloheximide¹. Isolate fastidious fungi and grow Actinomyces² using BHI Agar with 5-10% sheep blood. Pathogenic fungi and Nocardia asteroides can be isolated using optimal concentrations of chloramphenicol³. Cycloheximide inhibits certain Aspergillus spp. and zygomycetes.

Use BHI Agar with Sheep Blood, Chloramphenicol and Cycloheximide¹ for the cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms, including pathogenic fungi.

• Highly Nutritious: medium recommended for the enrichment of fastidious organisms.
• Ready-to-use: the convenience of prepared media.
• Selective: antibiotics allows the selective growth of organisms (Chloramphenicol is a broad spectru antibiotic which inhibits broad range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms while cycloheximide inhibits rapidly growing saprophytic fungi that may overgrow slower growing pathogens).
• Conforms to CLSI standards⁴.

BHI Agar w/Sheep Blood contains brain heart infusion, peptone, and dextrose, which provide nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, vitamins and a carbohydrate source. Sheep blood provides essential growth factors for fastidious fungi. Yeast extracts are incorporated in the medium to serve as a growth stimulant.

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