Culture Medium Flashcards by Gilbert Villegas

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Alkaline Peptone Water (APW)

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Enrichment for Vibrio spp.

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Bordet-Gengou Agar/Potato Blood-Glycerol Agar

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Bordetella pertussis

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Buffered Charcoal-Yeast Extract (BCYE)

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Legionella spp.

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Cetrimide Agar

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Cefsoludin-Irgasan Novobiocin (CIN)

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Yersinia enterolitica

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Chocolate Agar

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Haemophillus & Neiserria spp.

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Cycloserine Cefoxitin Fructose Agar (CCFA)

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Clostridium difficile

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Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar (CTBA)

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Fletcher Semisolid Medium

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Enrichment for Leptospira

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Hektoin Enteric Agar (HEA)

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Salmonella and Shigella spp.

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Loeffler Coagulated Serum Slant

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Enhance Metachromatic Granules – C. diphtheriae

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Lowenstein-Jensten Medium

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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MacConkey Agar (MAC)

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Selective for Coliform bacteria. Differential for LF and NLF.

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MacConkey Sorbitol Agar (SMAC)

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E. coli O157:H7

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Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA)

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Selective for Staphylococcus aureus

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Phenylethyl Alcohol (PEA)

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Gram positive cocci

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Salmonella Shigella Agar (SSA)

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Selective medium for Salmonella and Shigella

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Selenite F

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Enrichment for Salmonella from stool

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Streptococcal Selective Agar (SSA)

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S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae

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Thiosulfate Citrate Bile salt sucrose agar (TCBS)

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Selective for Vibrio spp.

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Gentamicin Blood Agar Plate (GBAP)

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Selective for Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Bacitracin Chocolate Agar Plate (BCAP)

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Selective for Haemophilus influenzae

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Cysteine Blood Glucose Agar

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Selective for Francisella tularensis

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GC-LECT Agar

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Gram negative cocci

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Cystine Trypticase Agar

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Confirm Neisseria gonorrhea

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Bacteriodes bile-esculin Agar (BBE)

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Selective differential for Bacteriodes fragilis

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Thioglycolate Broth

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Thioglycolate Broth

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Ashdown medium

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Burkholdria pseudomallei

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Bismuth sulfite agar

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Salmonella typhi

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Charcoal cephalexin blood agar

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Preffered in Bordetella pertussis

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Chocolate agar with Horse Blood

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Haemophillus spp.

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Czapek’s Agar

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Nocardia asteriodes, Aspergillus spp.

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Middlebrook 7H10

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Mycobacteria

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Skirrow Agar

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Campylobacter spp,

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Human Blood Tween (HBT) Agar

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Gardnerella vaginalis

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Biphasic Castaneda Bottles

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Brucella

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Blood Cysteine Glucose Agar with Thymine

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Francisella tularensis

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Modified Todd Heweitt Broth

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S. agalactiae

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Cystine Tripticase Agar (CTA) sugars

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Differentiate Neiserria by carbohydrate fermentation

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Kelly’s medium

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Borrellia

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Mcbride medium

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Listeria monocytogenes

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Regan Lowe/Cephalexin Agar

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Bordetella pertussis

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Schaedlar agar

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Selective Campylobacter and Helicobacter

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Shepard’s medium

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Mycoplasma

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Tween 80 albumin broth

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Spirochetes

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Pai medium

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C. diphtheriae

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McCoy Cells

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Chlamydia trachomatis

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Chick embryo

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Chlamydia ricketsia

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Lombard Dowell Medium

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Anaerobe

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Methylene Blue Milk

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Enterococci

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Tomato Juice Agar

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Lactobacillus acidophillus