Description
Cooked Meat Medium is a reducing enrichment and maintenance medium for anaerobic organisms, particularly pathogenic clostridia.
Cooked heart-tissue particles provide reducing sulfhydryl groups and support anaerobic growth. Acid, gas, blackening and dissolution of the meat particles help differentiate saccharolytic and proteolytic clostridia.
A fresh isolate is inoculated into the meat-particle zone and incubated anaerobically at 35 ± 2°C for up to seven days. Turbidity and reactions in the meat particles are interpreted.
