Culture Medium Flashcards
Alkaline Peptone Water (APW)
Enrichment for Vibrio spp.
Bordet-Gengou Agar/Potato Blood-Glycerol Agar
Bordetella pertussis
Buffered Charcoal-Yeast Extract (BCYE)
Legionella spp.
Cetrimide Agar
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Cefsoludin-Irgasan Novobiocin (CIN)
Yersinia enterolitica
Chocolate Agar
Haemophillus & Neiserria spp.
Cycloserine Cefoxitin Fructose Agar (CCFA)
Clostridium difficile
Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar (CTBA)
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Fletcher Semisolid Medium
Enrichment for Leptospira
Hektoin Enteric Agar (HEA)
Salmonella and Shigella spp.
Loeffler Coagulated Serum Slant
Enhance Metachromatic Granules – C. diphtheriae
Lowenstein-Jensten Medium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
MacConkey Agar (MAC)
Selective for Coliform bacteria. Differential for LF and NLF.
MacConkey Sorbitol Agar (SMAC)
E. coli O157:H7
Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA)
Selective for Staphylococcus aureus
Phenylethyl Alcohol (PEA)
Gram positive cocci
Salmonella Shigella Agar (SSA)
Selective medium for Salmonella and Shigella
Selenite F
Enrichment for Salmonella from stool
Streptococcal Selective Agar (SSA)
S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae
Thiosulfate Citrate Bile salt sucrose agar (TCBS)
Selective for Vibrio spp.