Microbiology COLONY MORPHOLOGY/ ODOR/COLOR/APPEARANCE Flashcards by Deleted Deleted

Green Metallic Sheen on BAP

P.aeruginosa

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Green Metallic sheen on EMB

E.coli

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Fish Eye on EMB

Enterobacter

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Bull’s Eye on CIN

Y.enterocolitica

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Dew Drops/satellite colonies

H. influenzae “satellitism”

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Mercury Droplets on Regan Lowe

B.pertussis

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Shiny half-pearl on blood agars

B.pertussis

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Medusa Head on BAP

B.anthracis

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Molar Tooth

Actinomyces

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Fried Egg on BAP

Mycoplasma

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Cauliflower appearance

MTB

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Serrated Confluent Growth on Cetrimide agar

P.aeruginosa

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Snow flakes on BG agar

Salmonella

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Hockey Puck Colonies

Moraxella

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Brittle, crumbly, wrinkled

Nocardia

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Buttery/Creamy Yellow

S.aureus

Dry and Waxy with rough edges

Diphtheroids

Smooth, Glistening, and Clay-like

N.elongata

Mousy odor

H.influenzae (Mahon)
Pasteurella (Theriot)

Musty/Mushroom

P.multocida

Old socks

S.aureus

Fruity, grape-like, corn tortilla-like odor

P.aeruginosa

Bleach odor

Eikenella corrodens/ H.influenzae

Frsshly-plowed grass

Nocardia

Putrid/Burnt sugar Chocolate cake/ Burnt Chocolate cake odor

Proteus (swarming motility)

Brick Red

Serratia marcescens (Prodigiosin)

Violet

Chromobacterium violaceum

Blue color

Kluyvera spp.

Brown-Black

Prevotella melaninogenica

Gun-metal Black

C. diphtheria

Swarming

Proteus

Pits on Agar

CEK of HACEK group: Cardiobacterium Eikenella Kingella