VRBD agar

VRDBA, VRDB Agar, or Violet Red Bile Dextrose Agar, is a microbiological growth medium. It can be used in agar plates to monitor or assess bacterial growth in the laboratory, particularly the growth of Enterobacteriaceae, for which it is selective.

External links

http://www.heipha.com/files/product/en/en-0185e-2-e-0407_VRBD_0.pdf

Growth media / agar plates

Selective media

Gram positive

Actinobacteria	Mycobacterium tuberculosis Löwenstein–Jensen medium Middlebrook 7H9 Broth Middlebrook 7H10 Agar Middlebrook 7H11 Agar Mycoplasma pneumoniae Eaton's agar

Firmicutes	Corynebacterium diphtheriae Hoyle's agar Enterococcus Bile esculin agar Lactobacillus MRS agar Lactococcus M17 agar Staphylococcus Mannitol salt agar

Gram negative

Alphaproteobacteria	Brucella Brucella agar

Betaproteobacteria	Neisseria Thayer-Martin agar

Gammaproteobacteria	Bordetella Bordet-Gengou agar Enterobacteriaceae VRBD agar Haemophilus influenzae/Legionella pneumophila Buffered charcoal yeast extract agar Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cetrimide agar Salmonella XLT agar DCA agar Salmonella/Shigella XLD agar

Differential media

Fungal media

Nonselective media

Other/ungrouped media

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