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. 1983 Jan;45(1):310–312. doi: 10.1128/aem.45.1.310-312.1983

Medium for Isolation and Differentiation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus

Miguel Kourany 1
PMCID: PMC242273  PMID: 6824320

Abstract

Trypticase soy agar supplemented with sucrose, sodium chloride, bile salts, and triphenyltetrazolium chloride is an improved plating medium for the isolation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from samples of seawater, permitting better differentiation of this organism from Vibrio alginolyticus and other bacteria.

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