Haroons Flashcards
Gram stain - diff between gram negative and positive
Come in and stain
- Crystal violet
- Iodine
- Acetate/ alcohol
- Safrin counterstain
Colours for bacteria and stain
Gram negative pink - decolourise and turn pink due to safrin counterstain
Gram positive purple - retain crystal violet
What are gram positives and gram negatives mainly
G + Cocci - balls
G - Bacili - rods
Gram positive bacili
C difficile
Listeria
Gram negative diplococci
Meningitidis
Neisseria gonorrhoea
Blood agar
Sheep and horse blood
Chocolate agar
Blood agar cooked for 5 minutes at 80 degrees which will release nutrients that are required for some bacteria to grow
Needed for fastidious organisms
Fastidiious organisms require what to grow
Factor X and Y
Known as fastidious require more than normal bacteria
Cled agar
- Differentiate lactose fermenting and non lactose fermenting gram negative bacteria
- Show E.coli as yellow
- Salmonella and shigella as blue
3 main gram negative bacteria
E. Coli - lactose fermenting
Shigella - non lactose fermenting
Salmonella - non lactose fermenting
Macconkey agar
- Shows E coli as pink
- Salmonella and shigella as yellow or colourless
Gonoccus agar
For neisseria culture
XLD agar
- After macconkey
- Going to differentiate salmonella and shigella
- Salmonella - red with black centres
- Shigella - Red only
Sabouard agar
For fungal cultures
e.g candia albicans or aspergillos
Lowenstein Genson medium
Culuture medium used to grow tuberculosis