What media or agar plate is best used to culture Propionibacterium acnes?

Question

note, please suggest the more readily accessible one, the one that can be easily procured commercially. thanks

Answer 1

See Butler-Wu, SM et al. "Optimization of Periprosthetic Culture for Diagnosis of Propionibacterium acnes Prosthetic Joint Infection" from J Clin Microbiol. 2011 July 49(7).

They used trypticase soy agar with 5% sheep blood, chocolate agar, brucella agar, and BHI.