Agar Medium O (Baird Parker Agar)

This medium is cited as Agar medium O in European Pharmacopoeia, 2008 and is recommended for isolation and enumeration of coagulase positive Staphylococcus aureus . This medium was developed by Baird-Parker for the isolation of S. aureus from foods. Staphylococcus species are common contaminants in food, dairy, pharmaceutical and cosmetics related products. This medium is recommended for sterility checking of materials to detect S. aureus. This medium has also been officially adopted by AOAC