1965 - Development of Mueller-Hinton agar, pioneer in the study of bacterial antibiotic resistance.

* Hinton co-developed Mueller-Hinton agar with John Howard Mueller * Agar was a medium developed to isolate the Neisseria bacteria that caused gonorrhea and meningogoccal meningitis * Became the most widely used culture medium for Neisseria * Its suitability for detecting whether bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics * Mueller–Hinton agar recognized as the gold standard for antibiotic testing.

Mueller-Hinton agar

Category:
Bacteriology

Completion Status:
done

Patent Number:
N/A

Co-Inventor:
John Howard Mueller