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LESSON 12: CULTURE MEDIA Flashcards

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Laboratory diagnosis of an infection is usually confirm by:

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  1. ISOLATING
  2. CULUTURING microorganicm by artificial media
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Bacteria and fungi are cultured either by:

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  1. LIQUID (broth)
  2. SOLID (agar)
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-pioneered the use of agar as a base for culture media as suggested by Fannie Eilshemius Hesse

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ROBERT KOCH

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-developed the petri dish.

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RICHARD PETRI

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-a container for solid culture media.

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PETRI DISH

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-developed the pour plate method and was the first to use solid culture media
for culture of bacteria.

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KOCH

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7
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-A nutrient material prepared for the growth of microorganisms in a laboratory is called a?

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CULTURE MEDIUM

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  • When microbes are introduced into a culture medium to initiate growth.
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INOCULUM

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9
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-The microbes that grow and multiply in or on a culture medium are referred to a?

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CULTURE

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-is the process of growing microorganisms in culture by taking bacteria from the infection site by some means of specimen collection and growing them in the artificial environment of the laboratory.

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CULTIVATION

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-a laboratory culture containing a single species of organism.

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PURE CULTURE

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-is prepared from a variety of seaweeds and is now
universally used for preparing solid media.

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AGAR

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13
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-agars melt at about ?

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95 degree celsius

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-agars solidify only when cooled at?

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42 degree celsius

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-accessory growth factors of peptone:

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  1. riboflavin
  2. nicotinic acid
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-. It is a complex mixture of partially digested prote

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PEPTONE

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17
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-It contains a wide range of amino acids, growth factors and inorganic salts.
- is used mainly as a comprehensive source of growth
factors and may be substituted for meat extract in culture media

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YEAST EXTRACT

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18
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-It consists mainly of maltose (about 50%), starch, dextrins and glucose, and contains about 5 percent of proteins and protein breakdown products, and a wide range of mineral salts and growth facto

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MALT EXTRACT

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-hese are used for enriching culture media. Either human or animal blood can BE USED.

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BLOD SERUM

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  • In this type of media nutrients are dissolved in water, and bacterial growth is indicated by a change
    in broth’s appearance from clear to turbid.
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LIQUID OR BROTH MEDIA

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-are made by adding a solidifying agent to
the nutrient.

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SOLID MEDIA or AGAR

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22
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-Petri dish containing the agar is referred to as?

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AGAR

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-are clones of cells originating from a single bacterial cell.

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CLONES

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24
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-the simplest and most common medium used routinely in diagnonistic laboratories.

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NUTRIENT AGAR by adding 2% of agar to nutrienth broth

25
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-for special purposes where agar is added to media in
concentrations that are too low to solidify them

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SEMI SOLID MEDIA

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-at this percent it yields a
semisolid medium through which motile, but not non motile, bacteria may spre

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0.2- 0.5 %

27
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-This media include nutrient broth and
peptone water, which form the basis of other media.

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BASAL MEDIA or SIMPLE MEDIA

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-is an example of a simple liquid medium that consists
of peptone, meat extract, sodium chloride, and water

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NUTRIENT BROTH

29
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-Addition of 0.5% glucose to nutrient broth makes it?

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GLUCOSE BROTH

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-Is an example of a simple solid medium.
- The medium is
used routinely for isolation of many bacteria from clinical specimens.

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NUTRIENT AGAR

31
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-: a media that contain some ingredients of unknown
chemical composition.

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COMPLEX MEDIA

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-s a synthetic kind of medium which contains known quantities of all ingredients used but does not contain any animal, yeast, or plant tissue

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DEFINED MEDIA

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-is an enriched medium in which nutritionally rich whole
blood supplements constitute the basic nutrients.

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BLOOD AGAR

34
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-is enriched with heat-treated blood (80°C), which turns brown and gives the medium the color for
which it is named.

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CHOCOLATE AGAR

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-These are solid media that contain substances that inhibit
the growth of all but a few bacteria but at the same time facilitate isolation of certain bacteria.

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SELECTIVE MEDIA

36
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-selective for the isolation of Vibrio cholerae

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Thiosulfate citrate bile salt sucrose agar

37
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-selective for enteric bacilli, such as Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp..

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Deoxychocolate citrate agar (DCA)

38
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-this medium is intended for Myobacterium tuberculosis.

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LJ Medium

39
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-this 2 medium is selective for Gram-negative bacteria.

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Hektoen enteric agar (H.E)
& Xylose lysine desoxychocolate agar

40
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-this medium is selective for Gram-positive bacteria

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Mannitol salt agar

41
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-selective for certain Gram-negative bacteria, such as Legionella pneumophila

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Buffered charcoal yeast extract agar

42
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-are liquid media that stimulate the growth of certain bacteria or suppress the growth of others for isolation of desired pathogenic bacteria.

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ENRICHMENT MEDIA

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  • this bacteria are present in feces, tend to overgrow pathogenic ones in stool specim
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Escherichia coli.

44
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-distinguish one microorganism from another growing on the same media by their growth characteristics.

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INDICATOR MEDIA

45
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-differential for lactose
and sucrose fermentation.

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EOSIN METHYLENE BLUE

46
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-differential for lactose fermentatiuon

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MacConkey

47
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-differential for mannitol fermentation

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Mannitol salt agar

48
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-differential for lac operon mutants for detection of recombinant strains of bacteria for
study in molecular biology.

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X-gal plates

49
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-media are used to maintain the viability of
certain delicate organisms in clinical specimens during their transport to the
laboratory.

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TRANSPORT MEDIA

50
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-what medium is for Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Stuart’s transport medium

51
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-in microbiology denotes any fermentable substance, such as glucose, sucrose, lactose, and mannitol that is routinely used

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SUGAR MEDIA

52
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-sugar media is contains how many % of sugar?

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1%

53
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-can be used for the short-term storage of bacterial
cultures.

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REFRIGERATION

54
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  • a process in which a pure culture of microbes is
    placed in a suspending liquid and quick-frozen at temperatures ranging from - 50º to-95°C.
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DEEP FREEZING

55
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-a suspension of microbes is quickly frozen at temperatures ranging from -54º to -95ºC, and the water is removed by a high vacuum (sublimation).

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LYOPHILIZATION

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-The organisms can be
revived at any time by hydration with a suitable liquid nutrient medium

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LYOPHILIZATION

57
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  • is a common method of preserving strains
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COLD STORAGE

58
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-number of drying methods for drying suspensions of bacteria for preservation purposes have been developed.

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DRYING METHOD

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MICROBIOLOGY (13 decks)

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