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COLONIAL MORPHOLOGY Flashcards

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IMPORTANCE OF COLONIAL MORPHOLOGY

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• Provide a presumptive identification to the physician

• Enhances the quality of patient care through rapid reporting of results and by increasing the cost-effectiveness of laboratory testing.

• Play a significant role in quality control, especially of automated procedures and other commercially available identification procedures.

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Lactose-fermenting, gram-negative rods producing_____ colonies on MacConkey (MAC) agar.

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pink

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Nonlactose-fermenting, gram-negative rods producing____ colonies on MAC agar.

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colorless

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Lactose-fermenting Escherichia/Citrobacter-like organisms growing on MacConkey (MAC) agar.

Notice the____ appearance of the colony and the____ precipitate of bile salts extending beyond the periphery of the colonies.

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dry

pink

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Klebsiella/Enterobacter-like lactose fermenters growing on MacConkey (MAC) agar.

Notice the ___, ___, _____appearance.

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pink, umbonate, mucoid

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GROSS COLONY CHARACTERISTICS

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Hemolytic pattern
Form/ shape
Margin
Elevation
Density/ Opacity
Size
Consistency
Color
Pigment

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ALPHA HEMOLYSIS
•______ hemolysis
Characterized by _____around the colonies
• Example:_____

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GREENISH ZONES

Incomplete

Streptococcus pneumoniae

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BETA HEMOLYSIS
•_____ lysis
Characterized by ______around the colonies
Example:

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Complete

CLEAR ZONES

Streptococcus pyogenes

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group A B-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes), produce a __________of B-hemolysis,

• whereas others, such as group B B-hemolytic streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae) and Listeria monocytogenes (a gram- positive rod) produce a_____, diffuse zone of B-hemolysis close to the colony.

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wide, deep, clear zone

narrow

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• Found in Clostridium perfringens
• Characterized by BETA HEMOLYTIC_____ zone of hemolysis due to production of theta toxin and in
ALPHA HEMOLYTIC_____ zone of hemolysis due to the presence of alpha toxin a.k.a lecithinase

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DOUBLE ZONE OF HEMOLYSIS

inner

outer

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Shape of bacillus

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MEDUSA HEAD COLONIES;
LION FACE

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SWARMING OF COLONIES
______- swarms on nonselective agar, such as blood or chocolate agar plate.

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Proteus mirabilis

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Diphtheroid

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Rough

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STARS OR COLONIES WITH FEET OR PEDICLES

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Yeast

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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serrated

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Actinomyces israelli

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MOLAR TOOTH COLONIES

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Form/ shape/ margin can be described as

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smooth, filamentous, rough or rhizoid or irregular

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Serrated

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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– MOLAR TOOTH COLONIES

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Actinomyces israelli

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SIZE

SIZE
Colonies can be described as

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LARGE, MEDIUM, SMALL

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SIZE

Streptococcus pyogenes have
COLONIES

Staphylococcus aureus have COLONIES

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PINPOINT

PINHEAD

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CONSISTENCY/TEXTURE
• Determined by…

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touching the colony with a sterile loop

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Consistency

• Canne described as:
• = Nocardia spp.
• = Staphylococcus aureus
• = some Neisseria, Klebsiella
• = Diphtheriods

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Brittle, crumbly or wrinkled

Creamy

Sticky

Dry or Waxy

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Color

Enterococcus are usually ______
• Diphtheroid are_____

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Gray

buff colored

25
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= blue green (pyocyanin – pyoverdin)

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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• = red (prodigiosin)

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Serratia marcescens

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= blue

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Kluyvera

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= violet (violacein)

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• Chromobacterium violaceum

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= brown - black

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Provotella malaninogenica

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DOUBLE ZONE OF HEMOLYSIS
• Found in…
• Characterized by BETA HEMOLYTIC____ zone of hemolysis (due to the production of theta toxin) and an ALPHA HEMOLYTIC___ zone of hemolysis (due to the presenc

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Clostridium

inner

outer

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ELEVATION
• Determined by tilting the plate and looking at the side of the colony
• Described as

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flat, circular, raised, convex, umbilicate/crateriform, umbonate

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Elevation

• Streptococcus pneumoniae are usually______
• Viridans are_____
• Beta hemolytic streptococci are generally____

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umbilicate

umbonate

flat

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DENSITY/OPTICAL PROPERTY

• Colonies are_____ if they allow all the light to pass through

• Colonies are_____ if they allow some of the light to pass through; Streptococcus agalactiae

Colonies are______ if they do not allow the light to pass through; Staphylococcus aureus

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TRANSPARENT

TRANSLUCENT

OPAQUE

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