Talk:XLD agar
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Would this agar be more differential/indicator than selective agar? If anything, XLD should be listed as selective and differential.
Name and credentials of the inventor of XLD agar
[edit]"Welton I. Taylor, Ph.D." is the CORRECT way to name the inventor of XLD agar. Like the vast majority of research scientists, Welton Taylor had an advanced degree (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1948). To omit this important credential is not just sloppy reporting, it is insulting to a man who didn't just earn a Ph.D. but among many other honors had a bacterium named "Enterobacter taylorae" in his honor and that of a colleague by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA (1985) and was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016 because his inventions "advanced microbiology in outstanding and lifesaving ways." 2600:1702:E90:B010:CCF1:C411:7380:EEBC (talk) 23:10, 25 August 2024 (UTC)