MacConkey Plates

What is it? MacConkey medium contains pH indicators that can be used to differentiate colonies that can ferment a sugar from colonies unable to ferment a sugar. For example, on MacConkey-Lactose plates Lac+ colonies ferment lactose and the acid turns the pH indicator

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