Primary Purpose

Question 1

Differential isolation and presumptive identification of group D streptococci and enterococci

Answer 1

Bile esculin agar (BEA)

Question 2

Selective and differential for cultivation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci from clinical and surveillance specimens

Answer 2

Bile esculin azide agar with vancomycin

Question 3

Cultivation of nonfastidious microorgan-isms. determination of hemolvtic reactions

Answer 3

Blood agar (BA)

Question 4

Isolation of Bordetella pertussis and
Bordetella parapertussis

Answer 4

Bordet-Gengou Agar

Question 5

Cultivation of fastidious organisms

Answer 5

Brain-heart infusion agar
or broth

Question 6

Enrichment for Legionella spp.
Supports the growth of Francisella and
Nocardia spp.

Answer 6

Buffered charcoal-yeast extract agar (BCYE

Question 7

Enrichment and selection for
Legionella spp.

Answer 7

Buffered charcoal-yeast extract (BCYE) agar with antibiotics

Question 8

For recovery of B. cepacia from cystic
fibrosis

Answer 8

Burkholderia cepacia selective agar

Question 9

Selective for Campylobacter spp.

Answer 9

Campy-blood Agar

Question 10

Selective holding medium for recovery of Campvlobacter spp. Incubated at 4°C for cold-enrichment

Answer 10

Campylobacter thioglycollate broth

Question 11

Improved growth of obligate, slow-
growing anaerobes

Answer 11

CDC* anaerobe 5% sheep blood agar

Question 12

Selective medium for isolation of
Campylobacter spp.

Answer 12

Cefoperazone, vancomy-cin, amphotericin (CVA) medium

Question 13

Selective for Yersinia Spp.: may be useful for isolation of Aeromonas spp.

Answer 13

Cefsulodin-irgasan-novobiocin (CIN) agar

Question 14

Cultivation of fastidious microorganisms such as Haemophilus spp., Brucella spp. and pathogenic Neisseria spp.

Answer 14

Chocolate agar

Question 15

Designed to optimize growth and differentiate a specific type of organism; routinely used in the identification of yeasts, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and a variety of other organisms

Answer 15

Chromogenic media

Question 16

Selective isolation of gram-positive coccI

Answer 16

Columbia colistin-nalidixic acid (CNA)
agar

Question 17

Isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheria

Answer 17

Cystine-tellurite blood agar

Question 18

Isolation and differentiation of lactose-fermenting and non-lactose-fermenting enteric bacilli

Answer 18

Eosin methylene blue
(EMB) agar (Levine)

Question 19

Selective (enrichment) liquid medium for enteric pathogens

Answer 19

Gram-negative broth (GN)

Question 20

Differential, selective medium for the isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella spp. from other gram-negative enteric bacilli

Answer 20

Hektoen enteric (HE) agar

Question 21

Isolation and growth of Corynebacterium
spp.

Answer 21

Loeffler medium

Question 22

For the selection and differentiation of
E. coli 0157:H7 in stool specimens

Answer 22

MacConkey sorbitol agar

Question 23

Selective differentiation of staphylococci

Answer 23

Mannitol salt agar

Question 24

Selective for Neisseria gonorrhoeae;
also supports the growth of Ureaplasma urealyticum and some
Mycoplasma spp.

Answer 24

NYC agar

Question 25

Selective isolation of aerobic gram-positive cocci and bacilli and anaerobic gram-positive cocci and gram-negative bacilli

Answer 25

Phenylethyl alcohol (PEA) agar

Question 26

Enrichment and selective medium for isolation of Bordetella pertussis

Answer 26

Regan Lowe

Question 27

Selective for Salmonella and some Shigella spp.

Answer 27

Salmonella-Shigella (SS) agar

Question 28

Nonselective medium for the recovery of anaerobes and aerobes Selective for Campylobacter spp. and Helicobacter spp.

Answer 28

Schaedler agar

Question 29

Enrichment of isolation of Salmonella spp.

Answer 29

Selenite broth

Question 30

Selective for Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus agalactiae

Answer 30

Streptococcal selective agar (SSA)

Question 31

Selective for N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis. Supports the growth of Francisella and Brucella spp.

Answer 31

Thayer-Martin agar (TM) (modified Thayer Martin IMTM1)

Question 32

Supports growth of anaerobes, aerobes. microaerophilic, and fastidious microorganisms

Answer 32

Thioglycollate broth

Question 33

Selective and differential for Vibrio spp.

Answer 33

Thiosulfate citrate--bile salts (TCBS) agar

Question 34

Selective for Salmonella and Shigella spp., except Salmonella enterica Typhi

Answer 34

Tetrathionate broth

Question 35

Selection and enrichment for Streptococcus agalactiae in female genital specimens

Answer 35

Todd-Hewitt broth supplemented with antibiotics (LIM)

Question 36

Isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella spp. from other gram-negative enteric bacilli

Answer 36

Xylose lysine deoxycholate (XLD) agar

Question 37

Enrichment broth used for subculturing various bacteria from primary agar plates

Answer 37

Trypticase soy broth (TSB)

Question 38

Isolation and differentiation of lactose fermenting and non-lactose-fermenting enteric bacilli

Answer 38

MacConkey Agar