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BCYE agar
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Legionella
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Skirrows blood agar
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C. jejuni
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Chrom agar +/- cefoxitin
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Sel and differential for S. aureus
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Mannitol salt agar
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Sel and differential for S. aureus
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Sheep blood agar
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Hemolytic rxns (alpha, beta, non-hemolytic)
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Chocolate agar
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Fastidious bac (esp. Haemophilus)
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CIN agar
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Selective for Yersinia in stool
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CNA agar
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Selective for Gram pos bac.
Recall the 2 three letter abrev. that end in "A" (CNA and PEA) are selective for G pos. |
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Phenylethyl alcohol agar (PEA agar)
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Selective for Gram pos bac.
Recall the 2 three letter abrev. that end in "A" (CNA and PEA) are selective for G pos. |
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EMB agar
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Selective and differential for Gram neg bac.
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GN broth
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Enrichment for Salmonella and Shigella in stool
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Hektoen enteric agar (HE agar)
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Selective and differential for Salmonella and Shigella
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MacConkey agar
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Selective and differential for Gram neg bac
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Martin-Lewis agar
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Selective for N. gonorrheae
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New York City agar
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Selective for N. gonorrheae
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Regan-Lowe agar
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Selective for Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis
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Salmonella-Shigella agar
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Selective and differential for Salmonella and Shigella
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Selenite enrichment broth
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Enrichment for Salmonella and Shigella in stool
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Thayer-Martin medium
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Selective for N. gonorrheae and N. meningitidis
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Thioglycollate broth
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All purpose broth for aerobes and anaerobes
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Tryptic soy broth
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All purpose broth for aerobes
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XLD agar
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Selective and differential for Salmonella and Shigella. Will also grow E. coli and proteus. Note: Salmonella and proteus will both produce black colonies on a bkground bright pink agar. But will see a light pink halo around the salmonella ones and lack of this halo with proteus. Also, E coli may produce yellow colonies on a yellow bkgrd (as the nmlly bright pink media is converted to all yellow).
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Cysteine tellurite agar (aka modified tinsdale agar)
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C. diptheriae
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Middlebrook media
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Susceptibility testing for mycobacteria
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Lowenstein-Jensen media
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Susceptibility testing for mycobacteria
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Petragnani media
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Susceptibility testing for mycobacteria.
Note: Though all of the mycobac. media (LJ, Middlebrook, American Thoracic society, and Petragnani's) have malachite green as an inhibitory agent of non-mycobac, Petragnani's agar has it in the highest conc (0.052 g/dL). |
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American Thoracic Society medium
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Mycobacteria. Used mainly for sterile specimens such as CSF and bone marrow.
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TCBS (thiosulfate citrate bile sucrose)
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V. cholerae
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Human blood bilayer tween (HBT) agar is good to isolate what organism?
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Gardnerella vaginalis.
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MacConkey agar with sorbitol (aka SMAC) is selective and differential for what org?
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O157 Shiga-toxin producing E. coli.
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Bordet-Gengou agar can isolate what org?
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Bordetella pertussis.
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Novy-MacNeal-Nicolle Medium
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1. Trypanosoma spp.
2. Leishmania spp. |
