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38 Cards in this Set
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Cultivation of fastidious microorganisms, determination of hemolytic reactions |
Blood Agar |
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Selective and differential for cultivation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci from clinical and surveillance specimens |
Bile esculin azide agar with vancomycin |
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Differential isolation and presumptive identification of group D Streptococci and Enterococci |
Bile esculin agar (BEA) |
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Blood-Glucose-Cysteine Medium |
Francisella spp. |
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Cultivation of fastidious organisms |
Brain heart infusion agar or broth |
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Enrichment and selective medium for isolation of Bordetella pertussis |
Regan Lowe/Charcoal-Cephalexin Agar (Old name) |
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Selective for Salmonella and Shigella spp. except S.typhi |
Tetrathionate broth |
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Selective for N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis; Supports growth of Francisella and Brucella spp. |
Thayer-Martin agar |
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Supports growth of anaerobes, aerobes, microaerophilic, and fastidious microorganisms |
Thioglycollate broth |
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Enrichment and selection for Legionella spp. |
Buffered charcoal-yeast extract agar (BYCE) with antibiotics |
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Selective and differential for vibrios |
Thiosulfate citrate-bile salts (TCBS) agar |
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Selection and enrichment for Streptococcus agalactiae in female genital specimens |
Todd-Hewitt broth with antibiotics (LIM) |
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Lactobacillus acidophilus |
Tomato juice agar |
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Enrichment broth used for subculturing various bacteria from primary agar plates |
Trypticase soy broth (TSB) |
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Isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella spp. from other gram-negative enteric bacilli |
Xylose lysine desoxycholate (XLD) agar |
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S.pneumoniae |
Gentamicin BAP (GBAP) |
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H.influenzae |
Bacitracin CAP (BCAP) |
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Neisseria (for confirmatory) |
Cystine Trypticase Agar |
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C. trachomatis |
McCoy Cells |
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Brucella spp. |
TSB |
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For recovery of Burkholderia cepacia from cystic fibrosis patients |
Burkholderia cepacia selective agar |
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Selective for Campylobacter spp |
Campy-blood agar |
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Selective holding medium for recovery of Campylobacter spp. |
Campylobacter thioglycollate broth |
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Clostridium difficile |
Cycloserine-cefoxitine fructose |
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Improved growth of obligate, slow growing anaerobes |
CDC anaerobe 5% sheep blood agar |
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Selective medium for isolation of Campylobacter spp |
Cefoperazone, vancomycin, amphotericin (CVA) medium |
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Large, nonpigmented or gray, opaque, smooth; friable “hockey puck” consistency; colony may be moved intact over surface of agar |
M. catarrhalis |
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Inhibits fungi/yeast |
Nystatin |
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MTM which inhibits swarming proteus and capnocytophaga |
Trimethoprim lactate |
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Gray, translucent, smooth, glistening; may have dry, claylike consistency (BAP) |
N. elongata |
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Medium, smooth, round, moist, gray to white; encapsulated strains are mucoid; may be greenish cast in agar underneath colonies |
N. meningitidis |
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Small, grayish white, convex, translucent, shiny colonies with either smooth or irregular margins; may be up to five different colony types on primary plates |
N. gonorrhoeae |
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Vancomycin + Lincomycin + Colistin + Trimethoprim lactate + Amphotericin B |
GC-LECT |
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Lyses horse blood + Vancomycin + Colistin + Amphotericin B + Trimethoprim lactate |
New York City Agar |
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Vancomycin + Colistin + Anisomycin + Trimethoprim |
Martin Lewis |
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Vancomycin + Colistin + Nyastatin + Trimethoprim lactate |
MTM |
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Inhibits gram (+) |
Vancomycin |
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Inhibits gram (-) except N. gonorrhea |
Colistin |