Specific Culture Media Flashcards
S.aureus
Mannitol salt agar
Ludlams medium
Salt milk agar
Strep pyogenes
Crystal violet blood agar (contains polymyxin neomycin fusidic acid)
Transport- pikes
Neisseria meningitidis
Thayer Martin
Corynebacterium
Potassium tellurite to see colonies 1.Tinsdale 2.Mcleod To detect toxin 1. Albert 2. Ponder 3. Neisser To see granules Loeffler serum slope
Bacillus anthracis
PLET polymyxin lysozyme EDTA thallium acetate
naked eye-frosted glass
Micro- medusa head
Gelatin stab culture - inverted fir tree appearance
B.cereus
MYPPA mannitol egg yolk polymyxin phenol red agar
PEMBA polymyxin egg yolk mannitol bromothymol blue agar
Clostridium
Robertsons cooked meat medium
CCFA cefoxitin cycloserine fructose
Shigella
DCA deoxycholate citrate agar
XLD xylose lysine deoxycholate
SSA salmonella shigella agar
Salmonella
Wilson and blair bismuth sulphite
Vibrio
TCBS
Monsur GTTA
Transport -
Venkatraman
Cary Blair
Pseudomonas
Cetrimide agar
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Ashdown medium
H. Influenza
Fildes agar
Levinthal medium
Bordetella
Bordet gengou glycerine potato blood agar
Brucella
Casteneda