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Eaton's agar is a type of agar media is used to grow ''
Mycoplasma pneumoniae ''Mycoplasma pneumoniae'' is a very small bacterium in the class Mollicutes. It is a human pathogen that causes the disease mycoplasma pneumonia, a form of atypical bacterial pneumonia related to cold agglutinin disease. ''M. pneumoniae'' is c ...
''. One recipe for the cultivation of ''M. pneumoniae'' (Eaton's agar) includes ( v/v): *70% Difco PPLO (pleuropneumonia-like organism) agar or broth base *20% unheated horse serum *10% fresh aqueous extract of
baker's yeast Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentabl ...
*1000 units/ml
Penicillin G Benzylpenicillin, also known as penicillin G (PenG) or BENPEN, and in military slang "Peanut Butter Shot" is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections. This includes pneumonia, strep throat, syphilis, necrotizing enteroco ...


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