Exam 3 Flashcards
Selective Media
Contains 1 or more specific compounds that can PREVENT the GROWTH of certain bacterial species.
How do you achieve selectivity in media?
Media contains INHIBITORS
What might inhibitors have an effect on?
DNA synthesis, gene expression, enzymatic activity, or even membrane permeability
Differential Media
contains one ore more specific compounds that can DISTINGUISH between DIFFERENT bacterial species
What are the two important components in differential media?
Substrates and Indicators
What are substrates in differential media?
can be a carbohydrate that only certain bacterial species can utilize in a specific chemical reaction or a set of chemical reactions
What are indicators in differential media?
They provide a visible means of showing that a specific chemical reaction has occurred (e.g., a color change in a media)
What is presumptive identification?
Some biochemical information on the organisms present in a culture provided by selective and differential media
Can media be both selective and differential?
YES
Describe coliforms
bacteria that reside in the guts of birds and all mammals (including humans);
most well known coliform in E. coli;
indicator of fecal contamination
General characteristics of coliforms
Gram negative rods;
non-spore forming bacteria;
aerobes or facultative anaerobes;
can FERMENT LACTOSE
What is MacConkey agar?
selective and differential media used to identify the presence of coliforms
Enzyme secreted by certain bacterial species and breaks covalent bonds between phosphate and ribose sugar molecules
DNase
Breaking of covalent bonds in the DNA backbone causes _____ of DNA into short nucleotide chains
Depolymerization
How many types of DNA enzymes
2
DNase agar 2 important components
1- DNA
2- Methyl Green Dye
What is the color of the DNA media originally?
Blue/green
DNase NEGATIVE result
- blue/green after incubation
- no zone of clearing around organism
What does methyl green dye bind to?
Polymerized DNA
DNase POSITIVE result
- bacteria shows growth
- zone of clearing
to get a positive DNase result what happens?
- DNA cleaves to remove bound dye
- DNase is secreted and cleaved the DNA around the bacteria
Alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus species
- S. Pheumoniae (pneumonia)
- S. Mutans (dental plaque)
BETA- hemolytic streptococcus species are classified into how many groups?
7 (based off the different types of carbs/sugars on their surface)
The most medically important BETA-hemolytic strep species belong to what two groups?
Group A and B