Bacterial Colonies and Odor Flashcards
Creamy, buttery gold
Staph aureus
Mauve colored
MRSA
Pinhead white
Staph
Pinpoint gray
Strep
Depressed center
Strep pneumoniae
Hockey puck, wagon wheel
Moraxella catarrhalis
Green metallic sheen (EMB)
E. coli
Fisheye (EMB)
Enterobacter aerogenes
Swarming
Proteus, Clostidium septicum, C. tetani
Stalactite
Yersinia pestis
Iridiscent with greenish hue
Vibrio
Apron like
Aeromonas, Plesiomonas
Bull’s eye
Aeromonas, Yersinia enterocolitica
Tailing, runny, spreading
Campylobacter, Capnocytophga
Wrinked Dry
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Pseudomonas stutzeri
Nocardia
Mycobacterium smegmatis
Neisseria sicca
Feather edge
Alcaligenes
Spreading flat serrated
Pseudomonas
Bluish green red brown
Pseudomonas
Purple gummy
Acinetobacter
Lavender green, light purple
S. maltophilia
Yellow
N. flavescens
N. flava
N. subflava
Aggregatibacter approphilus
Burkholderia cepacia
Capnocythophaga
Cronobacter sakazakii
Escherichia hermanii
Flavobacterium/Chryseobacterium
Green
Pseudomonas fluorescens/putida, Fusobacterium nucleatum
Buff
MTB
P. stutzeri
Pink
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Rhodococcus equi
Red (prodigiosin)
Serratia marcescens
S. plymuthica
S. rubidaea
Violet (violacein)
Chromobacterium violaceum
Pitting/corrode
Moraxella lacunata
Eikenella corrodens
Arcanobacterium
Bacteroides ureolyticus
Cardiobacterium hominis
Satellitism
Haemophilus influenzae
S. aureus
NVS
E. coli
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Yeasts
Dew drop/ Clumpy
Haemophilus influenzae
H. ducreyi
Star shaped
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Rosette sticklike
Cardiobacterium hominis
Mercury drops/ pear-like
Bordetella