Pathogens and Materials Flashcards
1
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TSA
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Tryptic Soy Agar
- Agar resin + soy dust + water = gel
- soy broken down by trypsin
2
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Blood Agar
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- Tryptic Soy + 5% by volume Sheep’s Blood
- blood gives extra nutriets to grow hard to grow organisms
- test type of organism with blood lysing
3
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Blood Lysing Test
A
Alpha - Green-Grey/Brown color around the colony. Incomplete lysing
Beta - Clear of blood agar. Complete lysing
Gamma - No effect
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