Description

L.D. HiVeg™ Agar is used for cultivation and identification of fastidious anaerobic bacteria. It is used to evaluate the degree of growth of anaerobes and also to check indole and catalase production by Bacteroides and Fusobacterium species. L. D. Medium is also known as Lombard-Dowell Medium.Bacteroides fragilisare Indole negative and catalase positive, Fusobacterium necrophorum is indole positive and catalase negative.It is prepared by replacing animal peptones with vegetable defined peptones to avoid BSE/TSE/GMO risk.