MacConkey agar

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Etymology[edit]

The medium was developed by the bacteriologist Alfred Theodore MacConkey.

Noun[edit]

MacConkey agar (countable and uncountable, plural MacConkey agars)

  1. A culture medium designed to grow gram-negative bacteria and differentiate them for lactose fermentation.

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