Culture Media and its Purpose Flashcards by Ayra Lobendino

Culture media for Enterococci and Group D streptococci

Bile Esculin Agar

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Selective media for Salmonella (stool)

Bismuth Sulfite Agar

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Culture media for the Differentiation of Hemolytic Patterns and for Fastidious Organisms

Blood Agar

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Culture media for Bordetella pertussis

Bordet Gengou Agar

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Selective media for Salmonella

Brilliant Green Agar

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Culture media for Francisella tularensis

Blood Cystine Dextrose Agar

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Culture media for Legionella spp.

Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract (BCYE)

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Culture media for Campylobacter spp.

Campy-blood agar
Cefoperazone Vancomycin Amphotericin Agar
Skirrow Agar

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Selective holding medium for Campylobacter for cold enrichment technique

Campy-thioglycollate broth

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Culture media for obligate, slow-growing anaerobe

CDC anaerobe 5% sheep blood agar

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Culture media for Yersinia enterocolitoca and Aeromonas

Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin Agar (CIN)

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Culture media for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Cetrimide Agar

Seller’s Agar

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Culture media for Chlamydia and Rickettsia

Chick embryo

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Culture media for Neisseria and Haemophilus

Chocolate Agar

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Culture media for Haemophilus spp.

Chocolate Agar with horse blood

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Culture media for MRSA and fungi

Chromogenic media

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Selective media for Gram-positive cocci

Columbia Colistin-Nalidixic Agar (CNA)

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Culture media for Corynebacterium diptheriae

Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar

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Culture media for Clostridium dificile

Cyclosporine Cefoxitin Fructose Agar (CCFA)

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Culture media for Nocardia asteriodes

Czapek Agar

Dorset Egg medium

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Culture media for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Dorset Egg medium

Dubos Oleic Agar

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Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella (stool)

Desoxycholate Citrate Agar

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Culture media for Vibrio cholerae

Dieudonne’s medium

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Culture media for Mycoplasma

Edward Hayflick Agar

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Differential media for LF and NLF

Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB)-Levine medium | Mac Conkey Agar

Culture media for Leptospira interrogans

Ellinghausen, McCullough, Johnson and Harris (EMJH) medium

Culture media for Leptospira

Fletcher's semi solid medium

Culture media for Haemophilus ducreyi

Fetal Bovine Serum Agar with vancomycin

Culture media for Mycobacterium leprae

Foot pads of mice

Culture media for enteric pathogens like Salmonella and Shigella Selective and enrichment medium

Gram Negative (GN) broth

Culture media foe Gardnerella vaginalis

Human Blood Bilayer Tween medium

Culture media for the differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella

Hektoen Enteric (HE) Agar

Culture media for Bacteriodes

Kanamycin-Vancomycin Blood Agar (KVBA)

Culture media for Borrelia burgdorferi

Kelly's medium

Culture media for Corynebacterium diptheriae

Loeffler's Blood Serum medium | Tinsdale agar

Culture media for anaerobic organisms

Lombard Dowell medium

Culture media for Mycobacteria

Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) Agar Middlebrook 7H10 Petragnani medium

Culture media for Enterobacteriaceae (deamination or decarboxylation)

Lysine Iron agar

Culture media for Clostridium spp.

Litmus milk media

Selective media foe Gram-negative bacteria

Mac Conkey Agar

Culture media E. Coli O157:H7 in fecal specimen

Mac Conkey Agar with Sorbitol

Culture media for Staphylococcus aureus

Mannitol Salt Sugar

Culture media for Listeria monocytogenes

Mc Bride medium

Culture media foe Neisseria gonorrheae

Martin Lewis agar New York City (NYC) agar Thayer Martin agar

Culture media foe susceptibility test (antimicrobial testing)

Mueller Hinton agar

Culture media for Enterococci

Methylene Blue Milk

Differential media for Acinetobacter, Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas

Oxidative-Fermentative (OF) medium

Culture media for Gram-positive bacteria

Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol medium

Culture media for Haemophilus influenzae

Rabbit Blood Agar with yeast extract

Culture media for Bordetella pertussis

Regan Lowe

Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella

Salmonella-Shigella Agar (SSA)

Culture media for Salmonella spp.

Selenite broth (enrichment medium)

Nonselective medium for aerobes and anaerobes; selective for Campylobacter and Helicobacter

Schaedler agar

Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella spp.

Tetrathionate broth

Culture media for Neisseria meningitidis

Thayer Martin agar

Culture media for aerobes and anaerobes

Thioglycollate

Culture media for Streptococcus agalactiae in female genital specimens

Todd-Hewitt broth (selective & enrichment) with nalidixic acid and gentamicin/colistin

Blood culture bottle base Streptococcus and Brucella

Trypticase Soy Broth (TSB)

Culture media for Aerobic actinomycetes

Tyrosine agar

Culture media for Spirochetes

Tween 80-albumin broth

Culture media for Salmonella and Shigella

Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) agar

Culture media for Vibrio

Alkaline Peptone Broth | Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salt Sucrose Agar (TCBS)