Brain heart infusion agar with chloramphenicol, cycloheximide and sheep blood is a selective medium used for the isolation of pathogenic fungi from specimens heavily contaminated with bacteria and saprophytic fungi.

• Ready for immediate use
• Serves as the base for enriched and more selective media supplemented with sheep blood and antibiotics.

With 10% sheep blood, it is used to isolate systemic fungi that may grow poorly on the nonenriched medium. The presence of the antimicrobial agents, cycloheximide and/or chloramphenicol and, in modified formulations, gentamicin, penicillin and streptomycin, inhibits the growth of a wide variety of bacteria and fungi and enhances the isolation of pathogenic fungal species.