Does anyone know about any procedure to extract sterile blood for blood agar medium in an easy way?

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Mudhir Sabir Shekha

Blood Agar Base, Improved is used with blood for the isolation and cultivation of a wide variety of fastidious microorganisms.

may you can take benefit of those links

http://www.neogen.com/Acumedia/pdf/ProdInfo/7268_PI.pdf

http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/drugresist/VAMRManual.pdf

Jerard Seghatchian

in the fist place discard the first portion, as it is down for collecting of blood from donors and improve your cleaning arm technology!

Lotfollah Behroo

Firstly, prepare a clean sampling section and then,

vide infra, plz;

Inoculation of primary culture media ...