Microbes

Question 1

E. coli growth medium?

Answer 1

MacConkeys agar. Lactose fermentor appear a red pink colonies.

Question 2

Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth medium?

Answer 2

Lowenstein Jensen medium, which has penicillin and; nalidixic acid to inhibit growth of gram positive and gram negative bacteria

Question 3

Neisseria gonorrhea medium?

Answer 3

Thayer Martin chocolate agar with vancomycin.

Question 4

Haemophilus infuenza medium?

Answer 4

Chocolate agar with heme (X) & NAD (V)

Question 5

Legionella growth medium?

Answer 5

Charcoal yeast extract w/antibiotics, lysine, glycine, vancomycin cyclohexamide, GVPC) to inhibit growth of non legionella bacteria in the sample. Legionella requires cysteine for growth.

Question 6

Bordetella pertussis

Answer 6

Bordet-Gengou potato agar

Question 7

Vidrio cholera

Answer 7

Grows on alkaline media and is aerophilic

Question 8

campylobacter jejuni

Answer 8

Grows at 42 degrees C

Question 9

Chlamydia

Answer 9

Giemsa

Question 10

Acid fast Cryptococcus parvum

Answer 10

Ziehl-Neelson

Question 11

Mycoplasma pneumonia

Answer 11

eaton’s agar