Special Media for Microorganism Diagnosis Flashcards
1
Q
Tinnsdale or Tellurite agar: Black colonies
A
Corynebacterium diptheriae
2
Q
chocolate agar with X factor (hemin) and V factor (NAD)
A
hemophilus influenzae
3
Q
Hockey puck sign on chocolate agar
colonies turn pink after 48 hours
A
moraxella catarrhalis
4
Q
MacConkeys agar
A
Klebsiella pneumoniae
5
Q
greenish on culture due to pyoverdin
smells like grapes
A
pseudomonas aeruginosa
6
Q
Charcoal yest extract aka BCYE
A
legionella pneumophila
7
Q
Isolation on Lowenstein-Jensen agar
A
TB/mycoplasma tuberculosis
8
Q
Cornflower head appearance on Ashdowns agar
A
Burkholderia pseudomallei (disease is called meliodosis or whitemores disease)