DERS Micro Special Media Flashcards
1
Q
Stains acid-fast/Ziehl-Neelsen staining
A
Cryptosporidium parvus
Cryptosporidium hominis
Cyclospora cayetanesis (oocyst only)
2
Q
UTI bug that is non-hemolytic on blood agar
A
Staph sapro
3
Q
Diamond’s media
A
trichomonas vaginalis (this is the gold standard for dx this so know this!)
4
Q
Thayer-Martin agar in 10% CO2
A
Neisseria gonorrhea
Thayer-Martin agar is just chocolate agar with antibiotics selective for N. gonorrhea
5
Q
- Chocolate agar or blood agar with factor X (hemin)
- Mueller-Hinton agar with 5% heated horse blood
- Gonococcal Agar base + 2% bovine hemoglobin + 5% fetal calf serum
A
Hemophilus ducreyi
6
Q
Requires cholesterol in growth medium
A
Mycoplasma genitalium- this is due to their triple layer external membrane which contains sterol
7
Q
Stain this GIT infection with Steiner silver stain
A
H. pylori