Culture Media Flashcards
Diff & Iso for Group D Streptococci & Enterococci
Bile esculin agar (BEA)
iso & selective for vancomycin resistant enterococci
Bile esculin azide agar with vancomycin
Cultivation of nonfastidious microorganisms; determination of hemolytic reactions
Blood agar
Iso of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis
Bordet-Gengou Agar
Cultivation of fastidious organisms
Brain-heart infusion agar or broth
Enrichment of Legionella spp
Growth for Francisella & Nocardia
BYCE
Enrichment & Selection of Legionella spp.
BCYE + antibiotics
Recovery of Burkholderia cepacia from Cystic fibrosis patients
Burkholderia cepacia selective agar
Selec for Campylobacter spp.
Campy-blood agar
Selective & holding medium for recovery of Campylobacter spp.
Incubate at 4 degrees celcius for cold enrichment
Campylobacter thioglycollate broth
Improved growth of obligate, slow-growing anaerobes
CDC anaerobe 5% sheep blood agar
Selective medium for isolation of Campylobacter spp.
Cefoperazone, vancomycin, amphotericin (CVA) medium
Selective for Yersinia spp.
Isolation of Aeromonas spp.
Cefsulodin-irgasan- novobiocin (CIN) agar
Cultivation of fastidious microorganisms
Haemophilus
Brucella
Pathogenic Neisseria
Chocolate agar
Iden of yeasts, MRSA & others
Chromogenic media
Selective isolation of G (+) cocci
Columbia colistin-nalidixic acid agar (CNA)
Isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Cysteine-tellurite blood agar
Iso & diff of Lactose & Non-lactose fermenting enteric bacilli
Eosin-methylene blue agar (EMB) (Levine)
Selective (enrichment) liquid medium for enteric pathogens
Gram-Negative broth
Iso,selec,diff of Salmonella & Shigella spp. from other gram-negative enteric bacilli
Hektoen Enteric Agar (HE)
Iso & growth of Corynebacterium spp.
Loeffler medium
Iso & diff of Lactose & non-lactose fermenting enteric bacilli
MacConkey agar
Selec & diff of E. coli O157:H7 in stool specimens
MacConkey sorbitol agar
Selective differentiation of Staphylococci
Mannitol salt agar
Selective for Neisseria gonorrheae
Supports growth of Ureaplasma urealyticum & some Mycoplasma spp.
NYC agar
iso & selec of Aerobic gram-positive cocci & bacilli and
Anaerobic gram-positive cocci & gram-negative bacilli
Phenylethyl Alcohol agar (PEA)
Enrichment & selective for isolation of Bordetella pertussis
Regan Lowe
Selective for Salmonella & some Shigella spp
Salmonella-Shigella agar (SS)
Nonselective medium for recovery of aerobes & anaerobes
Selective for Campylobacter & Helicobacter spp.
Schaedler agar
Enrich & isolation of Salmonella spp.
Selenite broth
Selective for S. pyo & S. agalactiae
Streptococcal Selective Agar (SSA)