Bordet-Gengou medium
(bor-dā′zhon-goo′)
[Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Belgian immunologist, 1870-1961; Octave Gengou, Fr. bacteriologist, 1875-1957]
ABBR: BG medium A culture medium used to isolate Bordetella pertussis from clinical specimens.
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