ii Enriched medium In enriched medium substances like blood

Last updated: 5/19/2023

ii Enriched medium In enriched medium substances like blood egg or serum are added along with the basal medium It is used to grow fastidious organisms that are very particular in their nutritional needs Fastidious organisms have elaborate requirements of specific nutrients like vitamins and growth promoting subtances and or not easily pleased or satisfied by ordinary nutrients available in nature Example Blood agar is used to identify haemolytic bacteria Figure 5 4 and Chocolate agar used to identify Neisseria gonorrhoeae