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Furukawa Agar - A novel bacteriological agar designed to inhibit fungal contamination when sampling organic compost
Maika Furukawa1, Jonathan Stirling2, Naoaki Misawa3
1Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 7AD, UK; Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK; Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
Abstract:
A novel bacteriological agar, named Furukawa Agar, has been specifically designed to inhibit the growth of filamentous fungi during microbiological examination of bacteria from organic compost, thereby allowing complete analysis of the resulting bacterial organisms, without the overgrowth with filamentous fungi.
