Chocolate agar
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Chocolate agar or chocolate blood agar is a nonselective, enriched growth medium used for isolation of pathogenic bacteria. It is a variant of the blood agar plate, containing red blood cells that hav
Colonies of Yersinia pestis growing on chocolate agar
Chocolate agar showing Francisella tularensis colonies
Francisella tularensis
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Francisella tularensis is a pathogenic species of Gram-negative coccobacillus, an aerobic bacterium. It is nonspore-forming, nonmotile, and the causative agent of tularemia, the pneumonic form of whic
Chocolate agar
…Colonies of Yersinia pestis growing on chocolate agar Chocolate agar showing Francisella tularensis colonies Comparison of two culture media types used to grow Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. Known as overgrowth, the nonselective chocolate agar medium…
Macrophage Infected with Francisella tularensis Bacteria
A tularemia lesion on the dorsal skin of a hand
F. tularensis colonies on an agar plate