02 Bacteria Culture
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- Blood: enriched (blood) and differential (blood pattern)
- Eosin methylene blue: selective (gm-) and differential (lactose fermenting)
Fastidious bacteria
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Blood Agar
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Chocolate Agar
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- staph aureus beta hemolysis first
VPN
Aka thayer-martin media.
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Bordet-Gengou agar
Aka potato agar.
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- made from potatoes - high in starch
- selective for C. dphtheria.
Tellurite plate
- differential for c. diphtheria. Reduces tellurite to tellurium
- Gray black colonies.
Lowenstein-Jensen
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Eaton's agar
- culture for mycoplasma pneumonia.
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MacConkey's agar
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Eosin-Methylene Blue
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Sorbitol MacConkey
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- charcoal for legionella
- classic: nursing home with atypical pneumonia
Sabouraud's agar
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Special growth requirements
Superoxide dismutase and catalase
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- O2 radical toxic to bacteria. Must be neutralized by aerobic organisms
Aerobes
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Anaerobes
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- bacteroides: appendicitis
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- Aspirate vomit
- Clindamycin for anaerobe above diaphragm (lung)
- Metronidazole for anaerobe below diaphragm
- Also can use cipro/quinolone for diverticulitis/appendicitis
Intracellular
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