FORM OR MARGIN Flashcards
MEDUSA HEAD COLONIES
BACILLUS ANTHRACIS
FUZZY EDGED
EIKENELLA CORRODENS
SWARMERS
PROTEUS SPP
MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS
WAGON WHEEL APPEARANCE
MOLAR TOOTH
ACTINOMYCES
CAULIFLOWER LIKE COLONIES
M. TUBERCULOSIS
MYCOPLASMA AND UREAPLASMA
FRIED EGG
FOOT OR PEDICLE
YEAST = CANDIDA ALBICANS
STALACTITE PATTERN
YERSINIA PERTIS
WHITE
coagulase negative STAPHY
GRAY
GRAM NEGATIVE, ENTEROCOCCUS SPP
YELLOW OR OFF WHITE
S. AUREUS, MICROCOCCUS SPP, NEISSERIA SPP (NON PATHOGENIC)
BUFF
DIPHTEROIDS
BRITTLE FORMS SPLINTERS
NOCARDIA SPP
CREAMY
S. AUREUS
DRY AND WAXY
DIPHTHEROIDS
STICKY
NEISSERIA SPP
B. ANTHRACIS
BEATEN EGG WHITE
CAPSULATED ORGANISMS SUCH AS KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIA
MUCOID
GREEN
P. AERUGINOSA DUE TO
PYOVERDIN
PYOCYANIN
RED
SERRATIA MARCESENS
DUE TO PRODIGIOSIN
PURPLE
CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM
- CONVEX
- entire edge
- 2 to 3 mm
- CREAMY
- yellowish
- beta hemolytic
STAPHY
- convex or pulvinate
- transluscent
- pinpoint
- butyrous
- wide zone of beta
STREP
- umbilicate, flat
- transluscent
- butyrous or mucoid
- broad zone of ALPHA
PNEUMOCOCCUS
- pulvinate
- semiopaque
- gray
- moist to dry
- beta hemolysis MAY BE PRESENT OR NOT
ESCHERICHA COLI OR OTHER ENTERICS
- flat
- gray
- spreading as a thin flm on agar, burnt chocolate odor
PROTEUS
- flat
- gray to greenish
- magins erose or spreading
- green-blue pigment
- grapelike
PSEUDOMONAS