Bordet-Gengou medium

Bordet-Gengou medium

(bor-dā′zhon-goo′) [Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Belgian immunologist, 1870–1961; Octave Gengou, Fr. bacteriologist, 1875–1957] ,

BG medium

A culture medium used to isolate Bordetella pertussis from clinical specimens.