Lab diagnosis RED WORDS Flashcards
pure cultures cultivated by?
cultivated and maintained via aseptic technique
Describe aseptic technique
- sterilize loop via flame
- flaming tube tip to sterilize it (after uncapping it)
- only sterilized portion of loop touches tube
- tube tip reflamed
- tube recapped and loop resterilizes
defined medium
chemically defined
complex medium
chemically UNdefined
colonies are isolated how?
Koch developed streak plate method to get visible, isolated masses
What type of media is Eosin Methylene Blue Agar (EMB)
both selective and differential media
What type of media is McConkey’s agar?
*+ or - results mean?
both selective and differential media
- often used to determine if a gastrointestinal microorganism that causes diarrhea is a pathogen
- *lactose negative= pathogen
- *lactose positive= non-pathogen
Blood Agar?
Help ID?
- contains whole blood cells
* useful complex media for isolation and identification of pathogenic Streptococcus pyogenes that causes strep throat
Chocolate Agar
Helps ID what bacteria?
- contains hemolyzed blood
* used for isolation of Neisseria meningitidis
What type of media is Mannitol Salt Agar?
*types of staph found
- selective differential media
- often used to ID suspected Staph food poisoning BC only staph bacteria grows well in the high salt of this media
- -Staphylococcus aureus changes agar to YELLOW and is found in food
- -Staphylococcus epidermis not in food
Broths
have all the necessary nutrients in a liquid form
Agar media
have all the necessary nutrient in a gelled liquid
What makes up Nutrient broth or Nutrient agar?
a non-defined (complex) media
**contains: water, dried beef-extract, peptone (soy beans), with or without agar
Growth factors
specific substances such as Vitamins or Amino acids that are required by certain bacteria
What are auxotrophs?
bacteria that require one or more growth factors