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broth
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broth
liquid media for culturing microorganisms.

cooked meat broth
a medium useful for culturing anaerobic bacteria.
enrichment broth
one modified to permit growth by selected bacteria. An example is selenite broth, which is selective for salmonellae.

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Both enrichment broths were streaked onto xylose lysine deoxycholate agar (Merck) and Salmonella-Shigella agar, and incubated at 37[degrees]C for 22 hours.
Specimens were ground and placed on Columbia agar containing 5% horse blood and Schaedler enrichment broth and incubated aerobically for 3 days and on Schaedler agar containing 5% horse blood and incubated anaerobically for 10 days.
The growths were comparable to those of commercially available selective enrichment broths for individual organisms.
 
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