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