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TGB |
Thioglycollate Broth |
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Purpose of TGB |
growth of anaerobic microbes |
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Category of TGB |
biochemical |
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Innoculation of TGB |
dip and swirl |
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TSB |
Trypticase Soy Broth |
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Purpose of TSB |
growth of wide range of bacteria |
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Category of TSB |
general |
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Inncoulation of TSB |
dip and swirl |
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TSA |
Trypticase Soy Agar |
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Purpose of TSA |
growth of wide range of bacteria |
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Category of TSA |
general |
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Innoculation of TSA |
quadrant streak method using a mixed culture |
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Anaerobic, produces endospores, gram (-) and gram (+). Does not produce neurotoxins but can cause intestinal water loss and hemorrhaging by destroying intestinal epithelial cells |
Clostridium sporogenes |
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resident of digestive tract-producing vitamins k and b complex causes UTI, montezuma's revenge, and food poisoning |
Escherichia coli |
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aerobic cocci found in pairs or clusters, yellow in culture, nonpathogenic, grows well at 25C |
Micrococcus luteus |
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fruity odor and blue green pigment, gram negative rod, pathogenic with phagocytic resistant slime |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
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gram negative motile rod, found growing in bathrooms where it looks pink and slimy. nosocomial, opportunist in AIDS victims |
Serratia marcescens |
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gram (+), cocci in gram like clusters, salt tolerant, associated with skin and mucus membranes, most resistant to non-spore formers |
Staphylococcus aureus |
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MRSA |
Methicillin-resisitant Staphylococcus aureus |
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VRSA |
Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -food poisoing -toxic shock -pink eye, boils |