columbia_blood_medium

CultureMech:001830 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM

Overview

External ontology
mediadive.medium:693 (source link unavailable) — COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
Source: DSMZ | Link: https://www.dsmz.de/microorganisms/medium/pdf/DSMZ_Medium693.pdf Commercial Product: Brain Heart Infusion Supplier: Difco/BD Catalog: 237500 Source: https://microbenotes.com/brain-heart-infusion-bhi-agar/ Accessed: 2026-03-28 Constituent composition researched from product specification.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_001830["columbia_blood_medium"]
    ing0_Columbia_agar_base["Columbia agar base"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing0_Columbia_agar_base
    ing1_Defibrinated_sheep_blood["Defibrinated sheep blood"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing1_Defibrinated_sheep_blood
    ing2_Casein_peptone["Casein peptone"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing2_Casein_peptone
    ing3_Soy_peptone["Soy peptone"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing3_Soy_peptone
    ing4_D____Glucose["D(+)-Glucose"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing4_D____Glucose
    CHEBI_17634["CHEBI:17634"]
    ing4_D____Glucose -.-> CHEBI_17634
    ing5_NaCl["NaCl"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing5_NaCl
    CHEBI_26710["CHEBI:26710"]
    ing5_NaCl -.-> CHEBI_26710
    ing6_K2HPO4["K2HPO4"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing6_K2HPO4
    CHEBI_131527["CHEBI:131527"]
    ing6_K2HPO4 -.-> CHEBI_131527
    ing7_Calf_brains["Calf brains"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing7_Calf_brains
    ing8_Beef_heart["Beef heart"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing8_Beef_heart
    ing9_Proteose_peptone["Proteose peptone"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing9_Proteose_peptone
    ing10_Dextrose["Dextrose"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing10_Dextrose
    ing10_Dextrose -.-> CHEBI_17634
    ing11_Sodium_chloride["Sodium chloride"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing11_Sodium_chloride
    ing11_Sodium_chloride -.-> CHEBI_26710
    ing12_Disodium_phosphate["Disodium phosphate"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing12_Disodium_phosphate
    CHEBI_34683["CHEBI:34683"]
    ing12_Disodium_phosphate -.-> CHEBI_34683
    ing13_Peptone["Peptone"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing13_Peptone
    ing14_Meat_extract["Meat extract"]
    CultureMech_001830 --> ing14_Meat_extract

Ingredients (15)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Columbia agar base 1000 G_PER_L
2 Defibrinated sheep blood 50 G_PER_L
3 Casein peptone 17 G_PER_L
4 Soy peptone 3 G_PER_L
5 D(+)-Glucose
C6H12O6 180.156 g/mol
2.5 G_PER_L CHEBI:17634
D-glucose
6 NaCl
Cl.Na 58.443 g/mol
5 G_PER_L CHEBI:26710
sodium chloride
7 K2HPO4
HO4P.2K 174.174 g/mol
2.5 G_PER_L CHEBI:131527
dipotassium hydrogen phosphate
8 Calf brains
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
variable VARIABLE UBERON:0000955
brain
infusion from 200 g/L; Tissue infusion - source material is calf brain tissue; Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
9 Beef heart
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
variable VARIABLE UBERON:0000948
heart
infusion from 250 g/L; Tissue infusion - source material is beef/ox heart tissue; Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
10 Proteose peptone
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
10.0 G_PER_L MICRO:0000180 (source link unavailable)
proteose peptone
Enzymatic digest of animal protein providing amino acids and peptides; Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
11 Dextrose
C6H12O6 180.156 g/mol
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
2.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:17634
D-glucose
Carbon/energy source; Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
12 Sodium chloride
Cl.Na 58.443 g/mol
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
5.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:26710
sodium chloride
Maintains osmotic equilibrium; Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
13 Disodium phosphate
HO4P.2Na 141.958 g/mol
Difco/BD Brain Heart Infusion 237500
2.5 G_PER_L CHEBI:34683
disodium hydrogenphosphate
pH buffer (final pH 7.4 ± 0.2); Constituent of Brain Heart Infusion commercial product
14 Peptone 5 G_PER_L
15 Meat extract 3 G_PER_L

Preparation

  1. Columbia agar base supplemented with 5% defibrinated sheep blood. Rehydrate pellets of freeze-dried ampoules in liquid medium 545, 215 or 1 (see below).
  2. ATTENTION: organisms, for which only M 693 is mentioned in the catalogue entry, do not grow in one of the media listed below! Those are meant to rehydrate the freeze-dried pellets, not for cultivation.
  3. Adjust pH to 7.3.
  4. The same as Caso Bouillon (Merck or Oxoid, Germany).
  5. Adjust pH to 7.0.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-26T17:53:11.949490Z mediadive-import Imported from MediaDive Source: DSMZ, ID: 693
2026-03-13T06:19:07.572080Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:001830
2026-03-17T06:30:30.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:45:19.899428+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "COLUMBIA BLOOD MEDIUM" to "columbia_blood_medium" for consistent matching
2026-06-05T07:40:54.691403+00:00 mim-legacy-to-chebi-migration-v1.0 Refreshed legacy MediaIngredientMech links to CHEBI keying Replaced 3 legacy mediaingredientmech_term link(s) with mediaingredientmech_chebi_term (id-safe: ingredient's own CHEBI + label). MIM deprecated the MediaIngredientMech:NNNNNN id scheme.
2026-06-10T07:46:54.955802+00:00 primary-term-label-canonicalization-v1.0 Canonicalized primary term label to OBO canonical (OAK) 1 primary term(s); ingredient name resolved by OAK sqlite:obo:chebi.
2026-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 repair_columbia_blood_score40.py LINKED_COLUMBIA_BLOOD_SCORE40_SOURCE_DUPLICATE Added or refreshed reciprocal source-duplicate link for bacterial/TOGO_M2582_Columbia_Blood_Medium.yaml.