Table 1.

Selective agars used for quantitative analyses of biofilm organisms

Organisms	Selective Agar	Incubation	Source for agar
Total CFU	Columbia blood agar	anaerobically	40
A. oris	+ 5% whole human blood
V. dispar
E. faecalis
E. coli
S. mutans	Mitis salivarius agar + 0.001% (w/v) Na tellurite	10% CO2	40
S. oralis
F. nucleatum	Fastidious anaerobe agar + erythromycin, vancomycin, norfloxacin	anaerobically	40
C. albicans	BIGGY agar	10% CO2	41
A. actinomycetemcomitans	Columbia blood agar + 5% whole human blood	aerobically	40
S. aureus	Baird-Parker agar	anaerobically	42