Bordet–Gengou agar is a type of
agar plate optimized to isolate ''
Bordetella'', containing blood, potato extract, and glycerol, with an antibiotic such as cephalexin or penicillin and sometimes nicotinamide.
The potato extract provided nitrogen and vitamins, and potato starch absorbed fatty acids present in nasal secretions or collection-swab cotton that inhibited growth; glycerol was a carbon source.
[BD Bordet Gengou Agar with 15% Sheep Blood (product insert also describing Bordetella Agar with Charcoal)]
/ref> ''Medical Microbiology, 4th edition'',[ states that Regan-Lowe medium][ (containing charcoal, blood, and antibiotic) has replaced Bordet–Gengou medium as the medium of choice for routine '']Bordetella pertussis
''Bordetella pertussis'' is a Gram-negative, aerobic, pathogenic, encapsulated coccobacillus of the genus ''Bordetella'', and the causative agent of pertussis or whooping cough. Like '' B. bronchiseptica'', ''B. pertussis'' is motile and expres ...
'' incubation.
'' Bordetella'' bacteria were difficult to culture; Jules Bordet
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (; 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus ''Bordetella'' is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for ...
and Octave Gengou Octave Gengou (27 February 1875, Ouffet – 25 April 1957, Brussels) was a Belgian bacteriologist. He researched with Jules Bordet the ''Bordetella pertussis'' bacteria.
Biography
At the age of 22, he obtained his doctorate at the University ...
invented the first version to isolate the coccobacillus, named Bordet–Gengou in 1906, they believed was associated with whooping cough. In 1909, it was not yet established that the coccobacillus was solely the cause.
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Microbiological media
Whooping cough