The Gold Standard for In-House Culture and Sensitivity

Spectrum® CS, the newest member of the Spectrum® family of chromogenic culture products, is a complete, easy to use system for identifying many common pathogens and determining their antibiotic sensitivity. Spectrum® CS has broad application in veterinary medicine including Small Animal UTI, Equine uterine culture, Bovine Mastitis, and more.

Like our other Spectrum® chromogenic products that produce colored colonies unique to each organism, the Spectrum® IV quad plate further groups bacteria into Gram positive and Gram negative without staining. In addition, the new plate incorporates a selective Staphylococcus agar (SS) for differentiating Staph aureus from other less virulent species. A fourth quadrant with Blood agar (BA) allows for easy recognition of hemolytic Streptococci.

As an example, when grown on Spectrum® agar, E. coli will produce pink to red colonies. Enterobacter and Klebsiella typically produce teal-colored  colonies surrounded by a pink halo while Proteus will be orange to brown. Pseudomonas appears light green. A laminated color interpretation chart is provided at no charge with first order. See it here

Antibiotic sensitivity testing is performed using the gold standard disc diffusion method and the provided Mueller Hinton agar plates. The BBL Prompt system for obtaining standardized suspensions of bacteria is included in the kit however direct testing with a liquid sample such as urine is still an option. Antibiotic disc cartridges and accessories (not included) are available for over 70 antimicrobials. Click here for complete listing. (New!) Sensitivity testing tutorial

The Spectrum® CS kit contains enough plates and accessories including inoculating loops and sterile swabs to process 5 specimens. All plates are individually wrapped for extended shelf life and to prevent drying and in inadvertent contamination.

96.85/Kit

Spectrum® IV (Quad plate only) 78.21/Pkg. 10

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Note: As with all culture procedures, a 37° incubator is required. Click here to see our  most popular units or call (800)330-1522 for our complete listing of both new and refurbished equipment or click here.