Bordet-Gengou medium

Bordet-Gengou medium

(bor-dā′zhon-goo′)

[Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Belgian immunologist, 1870–1961; Octave Gengou, Fr. bacteriologist, 1875–1957]

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BG medium

A culture medium used to isolate Bordetella pertussis from clinical specimens.

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