Human, cattle and goat blood as substitutes for sheep blood in blood-supplemented culture media
<p>Introduction and Objective: Sheep blood is the recommended type of blood for supplementation of agar media. In Sri Lanka, due to lack of availability of sheep blood, expired citrated human blood is used which gives poor haemolysis and causes difficulties in identification of some organisms....
Main Authors: | GN Dilrukshi, UN Jayewardane, F Sajidha, DMBT Dissanayake |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology
2018-05-01
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Series: | Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://sljid.sljol.info/articles/8163 |
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