heart_infusion_agar_with_5_horse_blood

CultureMech:002278 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: HEART INFUSION AGAR WITH 5% HORSE BLOOD

Overview

External ontology
mediadive.medium:J1099 (source link unavailable) — HEART INFUSION AGAR WITH 5% HORSE BLOOD
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
JCM Medium 1099 lists Heart Infusion Agar with 5% horse blood per liter as 25.0 g Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco), 50.0 ml Horse blood, 15.0 g Agar, and 950.0 ml Distilled water. The source uses JCM's default autoclaving at 121 C for 15 min and aseptically adds sterile defibrinated horse blood after the base cools to about 50 C.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_002278["heart_infusion_agar_with_5_horse_blood"]
    ing0_Heart_infusion_broth__BD_Difco_["Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco)"]
    CultureMech_002278 --> ing0_Heart_infusion_broth__BD_Difco_
    ing1_Horse_blood["Horse blood"]
    CultureMech_002278 --> ing1_Horse_blood
    ing2_Agar["Agar"]
    CultureMech_002278 --> ing2_Agar
    CHEBI_2509["CHEBI:2509"]
    ing2_Agar -.-> CHEBI_2509
    ing3_Distilled_water["Distilled water"]
    CultureMech_002278 --> ing3_Distilled_water
    CHEBI_15377["CHEBI:15377"]
    ing3_Distilled_water -.-> CHEBI_15377

Ingredients (4)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco) 25.0 G_PER_L JCM Medium 1099 lists 25.0 g/L Heart infusion broth from BD-Difco; this commercial base is retained as an opaque component.
2 Horse blood 50.0 ML_PER_L UBERON:0000178
blood
JCM Medium 1099 lists 50.0 ml/L Horse blood and instructs aseptic addition of sterile defibrinated horse blood as the final 5% supplement.
3 Agar 15.0 G_PER_L CHEBI:2509
agar
JCM Medium 1099 lists 15.0 g/L Agar.
4 Distilled water
H2O 18.015 g/mol
950.0 ML_PER_L CHEBI:15377
water
JCM Medium 1099 lists 950.0 ml/L Distilled water.

Preparation

  1. Mix 25.0 g Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco) and 15.0 g Agar with 950.0 ml Distilled water.
  2. Autoclave the base at 121 C for 15 min and cool to about 50 C.
  3. Aseptically add 50.0 ml sterile defibrinated horse blood.
  4. Mix and quickly dispense into sterile petri dishes.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-26T17:53:18.625760Z mediadive-import Imported from MediaDive Source: JCM, ID: J1099
2026-03-13T06:19:11.901068Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:002278
2026-03-17T06:30:40.000000Z mediaingredientmech-enrichment-v1.0 Added MediaIngredientMech links Linked ingredients to MediaIngredientMech identifiers
2026-03-17T19:45:24.785786+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "HEART INFUSION AGAR WITH 5% HORSE BLOOD" to "heart_infusion_agar_with_5_horse_blood" for consistent matching
2026-06-05T07:41:08.337759+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.
2026-09-12T00:00:00-07:00 repair_jcm_1099_heart_infusion_horse_score15.py RESOLVED_JCM_1099_HEART_INFUSION_HORSE_SCORE15 JCM Medium 1099 lists Heart Infusion Agar with 5% horse blood per liter as 25.0 g Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco), 50.0 ml Horse blood, 15.0 g Agar, and 950.0 ml Distilled water. The source uses JCM's default autoclaving at 121 C for 15 min and aseptically adds sterile defibrinated horse blood after the base cools to about 50 C. Corrected the imported ml/L unit artifacts, grounded water, agar, and horse blood, and kept Heart infusion broth (BD-Difco) intentionally unmapped as a source-disclosed commercial base.