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Thermo Scientific™ Thermonuclease Agar
Description
Presumptively identify Staphylococcus aureus with Thermonuclease Agar (w/toluidine blue).
Presumptively identify Staphylococcus aureus with Thermo Scientific™ Remel Thermonuclease Agar (w/toluidine blue). Zarzour and Belle reported the usefulness of the thermonuclease test in confirming questionable coagulase-negative S. aureus isolates1. Shanholtzer and Peterson compared the thermonuclease test with the tube coagulase and clumping factor2 and found that thermonuclease test to be as reliable as the tube coagulase and less time consuming to perform. Madison and Baselski demonstrated 100% correlation with the subsequent identification of the isolate as S. aureus by the coagulase test.
Thermonuclease Agar w/ Toluidine Blue is a solid medium recommended for use in qualitative procedures for presumptive identification of S. aureus. The nuclease produced by S. aureus is thermostable, whereas that produced by other orga
Specifications
Specifications
| Description | Thermonuclease Agar w/toluidine blue |
| Format | 12mm x 85mm Monoplate |
| Product Type | Agar Plate |
| Quantity | 10/Pk. |
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