Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Culture Media LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#749 of 1000 · 733 reports · 1998–2025
- BOOK 733 reports
- RANK #749 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 9 injury-typed
- MALF 723 malfunction
- SPAN 1998–2025
- PEAK 2025: 519
- PHOTO Pacemaker Lead Adaptor
Nearest event-volume peer: Pacemaker Lead Adaptor (0 report gap)
Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar sits #749 of 1000 among tracked device types with 733 MAUDE reports spanning 1998–2025. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Event-type mix vs corpus
Shares of FDA event_type codes on this device type, compared with the mean across 1,000 device types that have ≥100 MAUDE reports. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 1.2% corpus 30.4% · below corpus mean (-29.2 pp)
- MALF 98.6% corpus 64.5% · above corpus mean (+34.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Incorrect, Inadequate or Imprecise Result or Readings is 77% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BECTON DICKINSON GMBH accounts for 61% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 80% of location-tagged rows .
Culture Media in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Needle
Needle, Fistula
737 reports
- Culture Media (this)
Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar
733 reports
- Pacemaker Lea…
Pacemaker Lead Adaptor
733 reports
- Extractor
Extractor, Vacuum, Fetal
730 reports
- Gas Control U…
Gas Control Unit, Cardiopulmonary Bypass
729 reports
- Carboxymethyl…
Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium Or Polyvinyl Methylether Maleic Acid Calcium-Sodium
728 reports
What this shows Culture Media, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test, Excluding Mueller Hinton Agar carries 733 MAUDE reports, ranked #749 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
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Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Compare BECTON DICKINSON GMBH vs BECTON DICKINSON & CO. (SPARKS) →
Nationwide devices with similar MAUDE profiles
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Culture Media, both floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (733 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Culture Media are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Culture Media; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.