sphaerotilus_medium

CultureMech:001652 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: SPHAEROTILUS MEDIUM

Overview

External ontology
mediadive.medium:51 (source link unavailable) — SPHAEROTILUS MEDIUM
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
pH
7.0
Notes
Source: DSMZ | Link: https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/medium/pdf/DSMZ_Medium51.pdf

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_001652["sphaerotilus_medium"]
    ing0_Beef_extract__Lab_Lemco__Oxoid_["Beef extract (Lab Lemco, Oxoid)"]
    CultureMech_001652 --> ing0_Beef_extract__Lab_Lemco__Oxoid_
    ing1_Agar["Agar"]
    CultureMech_001652 --> ing1_Agar
    CHEBI_2509["CHEBI:2509"]
    ing1_Agar -.-> CHEBI_2509
    ing2_Distilled_water["Distilled water"]
    CultureMech_001652 --> ing2_Distilled_water
    CHEBI_15377["CHEBI:15377"]
    ing2_Distilled_water -.-> CHEBI_15377

Ingredients (3)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Beef extract (Lab Lemco, Oxoid) 5.0 G_PER_L FOODON:03302088
beef extract
DSMZ Medium 51 lists 5.0 g beef extract (Lab Lemco, Oxoid).
2 Agar 15.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:2509
agar
DSMZ Medium 51 lists 15.0 g agar if necessary.
3 Distilled water
H2O 18.015 g/mol
1000.0 ML_PER_L CHEBI:15377
water
DSMZ Medium 51 lists 1000.0 ml distilled water.

Preparation

  1. Adjust pH to 7.0.
  2. Prepare sterile agar slants by autoclaving.
  3. Cool the slants in a sloping position.
  4. Cover solid slants with 2 ml sterile tap water, inoculate into the covering tap water, and incubate at 20 to 25 C for at least 48 h.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-26T17:53:10.048285Z mediadive-import Imported from MediaDive Source: DSMZ, ID: 51
2026-03-13T06:19:06.207210Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:001652
2026-03-17T06:30:05.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:45:18.380676+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "SPHAEROTILUS MEDIUM" to "sphaerotilus_medium" for consistent matching
2026-06-05T07:41:46.161755+00:00 mim-legacy-to-chebi-migration-v1.0 Refreshed legacy MediaIngredientMech links to CHEBI keying Replaced 1 legacy mediaingredientmech_term link(s) with mediaingredientmech_chebi_term (id-safe: ingredient's own CHEBI + label). MIM deprecated the MediaIngredientMech:NNNNNN id scheme.
2026-09-11T00:00:00-07:00 repair_dsmz_51_sphaerotilus_score15.py RESOLVED_DSMZ_51_SPHAEROTILUS_SCORE15 DSMZ Medium 51 lists beef extract, optional agar, and distilled water, then prepares pH 7.0 sterile agar slants covered with sterile tap water.