Special Media Flashcards

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Enteric pathogens—for Salmonella, Shigella

Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Hektoen enteric agar(S)	
Xylose-lysin-deoxycholate agar (S)
Deoxycholate citrate agar (S) 
Eosin methylene blue agar (S)
MacConkey (D and S)	
Salmonella Shigella agar (S)
Wilson blair for Salmonella (S) 
Selenite F broth (En), 
Tetrathionate broth (En)
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Blood culture—for blood-borne pathogens - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Castaneda’s biphasic media (E): Brain-heart infusion agar slope and broth

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Vibrio cholerae (likes alkaline growth medium) - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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TCBS (Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Sucrose agar) (S)
Mansour’s Gelatin Taurocholate Trypticase agar (S)
Alkaline bile salt agar (S)
APW: Alkaline Peptone Water (En)

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S.aureus - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Mannitol salt agar (S)
Milk salt agar (S)
Ludlam’s medium (S)

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Streptococcus - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Crystal violet blood agar (S)

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Neisseria - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Chocolate agar (E), Thayer-Martin media (S), Modified New York medium (S)

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Corynebacterium - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Loeffler’s serum medium (E) Potassium tellurite agar (S)

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Bacillus anthracis - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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PLET: Polymyxin Lithium EDTA Thalious acetate (S)

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Bacillus cereus - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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MYPA: Mannitol egg yolk phenol red polymyxin agar (S)

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Anaerobes - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Thioglycollate (En)

Robertson cooked meat broth (En)

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Listeria - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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PALCAM agar (S)

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Pseudomonas - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Cetrimide agar (S), King’s media (for pigment)

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Burkholderia - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Ashdown’s medium

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Haemophilus - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Blood agar with staph streak (E)
Chocolate agar (E)
Levinthal's medium (E), Fildes agar (E)
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Bordetella - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Regan low media (E)
Bordet Gengou Glycerin potato blood agar (E)
Lacey’s DFP media (S)

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Mycobacterium - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Lowenstein Jensen, Dorset egg (S)

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Leptospira - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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EMJH (E), Fletcher’s (E), Korthof’s (E)

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Campylobacter - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Skirrow’s, Butzler, Campy BAP (S)

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Legionella - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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BCYE (Buffered charcoal yeast extract) (E)

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Reiter’s treponema - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Smith Noguchi media

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Urinary pathogen - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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MacConkey agar (D and S)
Cystein Lactose Electrolyte-deficient agar (CLED agar) (D and S)
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Enterobacteriacea - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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MacConkeys Agar

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Calymm. granulomatis - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Modified levinthal Agar

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Campylo. jejuni - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Skirrow’s, Butzler, Campy BAP medium

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Borrelia burgdorferi - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Modified kelley’s(BSK)

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Francisella tulariensis - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Francis BDC(Bld,Dextrose,Cystiene) agar

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Salmonella typhi - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Wilson & Blair, DCA, Selenite F , Tetrathionate broth

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Chlamydiae - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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McCoy cell culture, HeLa cell culture

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Candida and other fungi - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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Sabourouds Dextrose agar

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Leishmania - Special and enriched/enrichment media

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