LAB - Diagnostic Bacteriology

Question 1

cystitis

Answer 1

inflammation of the bladder

Question 2

glomerulonephritis

Answer 2

inflammation and damage to the filtering part of the kidneys (glomerulus). It can come on quickly or over a longer period of time. Toxins, metabolic wastes, and excess fluid are not properly filtered into the urine. Instead, they build up in the body causing swelling and fatigue.

Question 3

non-specific urethritis

Answer 3

any inflammation of a man’s urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside) that is not caused by gonorrhoea (a sexually transmissible infection)

Question 4

pyelonephritis

Answer 4

Kidney infection (pyelonephritis) is a type of urinary tract infection (UTI) that generally begins in your urethra or bladder and travels to one or both of your kidneys

Question 5

CLED agar

Answer 5

• non-selective nutrient agar
• used for total count
• allows growth of cystine-dependent coliforms
• electrolyte-deficient to prevent Proteus from swaming
• lactose and bromothymol blue to differentiate between LF & NLF

Question 6

MAC

Answer 6

• selective and differential
• allows growth of g-b
• inhibits g+c and yeast