Peptone Water - Composition and Uses - Important Culture Media

Peptone Water:

Composition:
1. Peptone
2. Water
3. NaCl

Container
Test tube.

Colour:
Transparent light yellow colour.

Consistency:
Liquid Medium

Uses:
1. The basis for fermentation tests.
2. to test Indole production
3. To study motility and chain formation of an organism.

Important Culture Media:

a) Nutrient agar

b) Blood agar

c)Chocolate agar

d)McConkey's Medium

e) Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) medium

f) Loeffler's Coagulated Medium

g) Robertson's cooked meat medium

h) Triple sugar iron (TSI) medium

i) Christensen's Urea Medium

j) Simmon Citrate Medium

k) Peptone Water

l) Nutrient Broth

m) Sugar Media.