| Nutrient Agar - Used for cultivating a wide variety of micro-organisms. |
| Tryptic Soy Agar - Used for isolating and cultivating fastidious micro-organisms. |
| Tryptic Soy Agar with 5% sheep's blood - Used for isolating and cultivating fastidious micro-organisms and
in determining hemolytic reactions. |
| Potato Dextrose Agar - Used for culturing yeasts and molds from food and diary products. |
| Sabouraud Dextrose Agar - Used for culturing yeasts, molds and aciduric micro-organisms. |
| MacConkey Agar - Used for isolating and differentiating lactose-fermenting bacteria from lactose non-fermenting gram-negative enteric bacilli. |
| EMB Agar - Used for isolating and differentiating gram-negative enteric bacilli, salmonella. | |
