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Specialized Growth Media Flashcards

Given the organism, identify the growth medium (agar) on which it is grown.

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

A

Tellurite agar, Loeffler’s medium

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Group D streptococci

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Bile esculin agar

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Staphylococci

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Mannitol salt agar

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N. meningitidis, N. gonorrhoeae from sterile sites (blood, CSF)

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Chocolate agar

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N. gonorrhoeae from nonsterile sites (oral, genitourinary tract discharge)

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Thayer-Martin agar

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Haemophilus influenzae

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Chocolate agar + factors X and V

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Clostridium perfringens

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Egg yolk agar

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Lowenstein-Jensen (Middlebrook) agar

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Vibrio cholerae

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Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salts (TCBS)

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Bordetella pertussis

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Bordet-Gengou agar OR Regan-Lowe agar

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Legionella pneumophila

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Charcoal-yeast extract

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Campylobacter, Helicobacter

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Skirrows agar

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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Barbour-Stoaner-Kelly (BSK) agar

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Eaton agar

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Cetrimide agar

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Salmonella, Shigella

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Xylose-Lysine-Deoxycholate (XLD) agar

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Leptospira interrogans

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Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) agar OR Fletcher’s agar

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Isolates Gram positive cocci; determines pattern of hemolysis

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Blood agar

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Isolates enteric Gram negative rods; selects against Gram positive bacteria and differentiates between lactose fermenters and nonfermenters

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MacConkey agar

Eosin-methylene blue (EMB) agar

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Isolates enteric Gram negative rods; distinguishes lactose fermenters from nonfermenters and H₂S producers from nonproducers

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Triple sugar iron (TSI) agar

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