MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards
Gram Stain reagents
Primary Stain: Crystal Violet (1 min)
Mordant: Gram’s Iodine (1 min)
Decolorizer: Acetone Alcohol (Flow/Thin: 1-2 mins/Thick: 5-10 mins)
Counterstain: Safranin Red (30 sec)
Gram Positive result
Purple/Blue
Gram Negative color
Pink/red
ACID FAST STAIN reagents
Carbol Fuchsin - 30 mins
Acid Alcohol - thin: 1-2 mins, thick: 5-10 mins
Malachite Green - 1 minute
A prenatal test used to detect Group B strep in vagina/rectum of a pregnant woman
GBS SCREENING TEST
How rare can a GBS pass from pregnant woman to her fetus
1-2 cases/100
Principle of BACT/ALERT VIRTUO for Blood Culture
Colorimetric
Bottles for Blood Culture
Adult:
Green (aerobic) - 10 mL
Orange (anaerobic) - 10 mL
Pedia/Peds Plus:
Yellow - 1 to 3 mL
Agar for Salmonella and Shigella
Hektoen Agar
XLD
Tellurite Blood Agar
C. diphtheriae
Lowenstein-Jensen
M. tuberculosis
Agar for E. coli
EMB
Enterobacteriaceae
XLD
Buffered Charcoal Yeast Agar
Legionella pneumophilia
Legionella pneumophilia
Buffered Charcoal Yeast Agar