One of the standard media used for lactic acid bacteria is MRS, which is described in the attached paper. Other improved methods have been described more recently, but this is our go-to medium.

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Dear Huang,

You can count this bacteria both separately. please look 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12602-017-9265-y.

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It is really a useful comment!

I think I will try to test all of them!

MRS is the best

Sigma-Aldrich® supplies media for the selective isolation, identifi cation and enumeration of bifidobacteria like Bifidobacterium longum, infantis and brevi which are used for quality control in the manufacture of dairy products.

Bifi dobacteria are Gram-positive, non-motile, rod-shaped and often branched anaerobic bacteria. They have a positive effect on the immune system and control intestinal pH. Bifi dobacteria produce bacteriocins and bacteriocin-like inhibitory compounds which inhibit the growth of other bacteria.

B.longum is the best-characterised species in the genus Bifi dobacterium. It is able to utilise a broad range of substrates for energy, such as plant polymers, glycoproteins and glyconjugates, as well as having specialised proteins for the catabolism of oligosaccharides.

Bifi dobacteria also have a unique hexose metaboliam called the bifi d shunt. The key enzyme, fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase, is not found in any other gram-positive intestinal bacteria and therefore provides an ideal target for a diagnostic test.

In adult’s intestine, only 3–6 % of the faecal fl ora is composed of bifi dobacteria while in breast-fed infants bifi dobacteria can be up to 90 %. With increasing age the number of bifi dobacteria decrease. It was observed that babies and adults with lower numbers of bifi dobacteria have a higher risk for diarrhoea and allergies. For this reason bifi dobacterium are added as a probiotic supplement to infant formulas, drinks, yoghurts and a lot of other products.

Because of the wide use of bifi dus, we developed Bifi dobacteria Selective Media (BSM), available as an agar or a broth, for standard for quality control. This allows for easy and fast quality control of yoghurt made with bifi dus and can be used to control the count of bifi dus bacteria.

Bifidobacteria grow very well on this medium whilst Lactobacillus and Streptococcus strains are inhibited. Bifidobacterium colonies grow within 24– 48 hours (occasionally up to three days because of the highly selective conditions). The Bifidobacterium colonies are purplebrown and therefore easy to differentiate from other organisms.

De Man, Rogosa and Sharpe agar, often abbreviated to MRS, is a selective culture medium designed to favour the luxuriant growth of Lactobacilli for lab study.