Himedia Hektoen Enteric Agar Medium

Recommended for differential and selective isolation of Salmonella and Shigella species in accordance with USP, It can be used for pharmaceutical products, enteric pathological specimens and non clinical samples, Enterobacters that are capable of fermenting one or more of the carbohydrates produces yellow or salmon-orange colouredcolonies like Klebsiella pneumoniae , that ferments lactose, Non-fermenters will produce blue-green colonies. Organismsthat reduce sulfur to hydrogen sulfide will produce black colonies or blue-green colonies with a black center, Salmonellareduce sulfur to hydrogen sulfide, producing a black precipitate, Micrococcus luteus does not grow,