columbia_blood_agar_with_10_horse_blood

CultureMech:008712 bacterial COMPLEX SOLID_AGAR
Original name: Columbia Blood Agar With 10% Horse Blood

Overview

External ontology
TOGO:M211 — Columbia Blood Agar With 10% Horse Blood
Applications
  • Microbial cultivation
Notes
TOGO M211 mirrors JCM Medium 218: prepare Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331), sterilize and cool it to about 45 C, add sterile defibrinated horse blood to 10% final, then dispense into sterile tubes or petri dishes.

Composition

flowchart LR
    CultureMech_008712["columbia_blood_agar_with_10_horse_blood"]
    ing0_Columbia_blood_agar_base__Oxoid_CM331_["Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331)"]
    CultureMech_008712 --> ing0_Columbia_blood_agar_base__Oxoid_CM331_
    ing1_Defibrinated_horse_blood["Defibrinated horse blood"]
    CultureMech_008712 --> ing1_Defibrinated_horse_blood

Ingredients (2)

# Ingredient Concentration Ontology Notes
1 Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331) 1000 ML_PER_L TOGO and JCM Medium 218 list one liter of Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331) prepared according to the manufacturer's directions.
2 Defibrinated horse blood 10 PERCENT_V_V UBERON:0000178
blood
JCM Medium 218 adds sterile defibrinated horse blood to 10% final concentration after sterilization and cooling.

Preparation

  1. Prepare 1 L Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331) according to the manufacturer's directions.
  2. Sterilize the base at 121 C for 15 min.
  3. Cool the sterilized base to about 45 C.
  4. Aseptically add 10% (final) sterile defibrinated horse blood.
  5. Mix and quickly dispense into sterile test tubes or petri dishes.

Target organisms

No target organisms are recorded.

Provenance

TimestampCuratorActionNotes
2026-01-27T06:35:54.625676Z togo-import Imported from TOGO Medium Source: JCM, ID: M211
2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 schema-defaulter-v1.0 Applied schema defaults and normalizations Added default concentration for ingredient: sterile defibrinated horse blood
2026-03-13T06:19:59.693640Z culturemech-id-assigner-v1.0 Assigned CultureMech ID Assigned stable identifier: CultureMech:008712
2026-03-17T19:46:18.333929+00:00 normalize_media_names_to_snake_case.py NAME_NORMALIZED Normalized name from "Columbia Blood Agar With 10% Horse Blood" to "columbia_blood_agar_with_10_horse_blood" for consistent matching
2026-05-16T09:03:12.320651+00:00 migrate_legacy_fields.py MIGRATED_LEGACY_FIELDS curation_history.date->timestamp=1
2026-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 repair_columbia_blood_score40.py RESOLVED_COLUMBIA_BLOOD_SCORE40_GRAPH TOGO M211 mirrors JCM Medium 218: prepare Columbia blood agar base (Oxoid CM331), sterilize and cool it to about 45 C, add sterile defibrinated horse blood to 10% final, then dispense into sterile tubes or petri dishes.