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Media | 
Uses | 
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·   Alkaline Peptone Water | 
Enrichment media for Vibrio cholerae | 
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·   Alkaline Salt Transport Medium 
·  
  Taurocholate Peptone Transport Medium | 
Transport media for diarrheal diseases suspected of
  being caused by V. cholerae | 
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·   Anaerobic Media | 
Liquid media by addition of 
·    
  Glucose (0.5 % to 1 %) 
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  Ascorbic Acid (0.1 %) 
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  Cysteine (0.1 %) 
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  Sodium Merceptoacetate (0.1 %) 
·    
  Thioglycollate (0.1 %) 
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  Particles of cooked meat broth | 
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·   Bile Salt Agar 
·  
  Thiosulphate Citrate Bile Salts-Sucrose Agar (TCBS) 
·  
  Monsur’s Tellurite Taurocholate Gelatin Agar | 
Selective media for V. cholerae | 
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·   Bile Esculin Agar (Contains 40% Bile) | 
Selective media for Enterococcus species (Black
  coloration of the medium) | 
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·   Blood Agar | 
·     Enriched media (Supports
  the growth of fastidious organisms, e.g. Streptococcus) 
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  Indicator media to show hemolytic properties of certain organisms (Staphylococcus
  aureus: β-Hemolytic; Streptococcus pneumonia and S
  viridans: α-Hemolytic; Enterococcus: Non-Hemolytic) | 
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·   Bordet-Gengou Agar 
·  
  Charcoal Blood Agar 
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  Regan-Lowe Medium (Charcoal Agar with blood, cephalexin and Amphotericin B) | 
Isolation of Bordetella pertussis | 
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·   Brain Heart Infusion Broth | 
Used in blood culture bottles (both adult and
  pediatric patients) | 
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·   Buffered Charcoal Yeast Agar (BCYA) 
·   Feeley Gorman Agar | 
Specialized media for isolation of Legionella | 
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·   Campylobacter Thioglycollate Broth | 
Selective holding media for recovery of Campylobacter
  species | 
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·   Castaneda Medium | 
Biphasic medium for the isolation of Brucella | 
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·   Cefoxitin Cycloserine Fructose Agar
  (CCFA) 
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  Cefoxitin Cycloserine Egg-Yolk Agar (CCEY) | 
Selective media for isolation of Clostridium
  difficile form suspected cases of pseudomembranous
  colitis/antibiotic-associated diaeehea | 
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·   Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin medium (CIN Medium) | 
Selective media for Yersinia (and may be used
  for Aeromonas also) | 
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·   Columbia-Colistin Nalidixic Acid agar
  (CNA Agar) | 
Selective media for the isolation of Gram-positive
  cocci | 
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·   Cooked meat broth 
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  Nutrient agar slopes 
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  Semisolid nutrient agar stabs 
·  
  Heated blood agar slopes | 
In general, used for preservation and storage of
  bacterial cultures | 
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·   Crystal violet blood agar | 
Selective media for Streptococcus pyogenes | 
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·   Cysteine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient Media (CLED Media) | 
Most commonly used media for culturing urine samples | 
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·   Egg Saline Medium | 
Preservation of cultures of Gram-negative bacilli | 
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·   Egg Yolk Agar | 
Detection of lipase and lecithinase activity of Clostridium
  species | 
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·   Ellner’s Medium 
·  
  Medium of Duncan and Strong 
·  
  Medium of Phillips 
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  Alkaline Egg Medium | 
Specialized media to induce sporulation in Clostridium | 
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·   Fildes Blood-Digest Agar and Broth 
·   Levinthal’s Agar | 
Enriched media for recovery of Haemophilus influenzae | 
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·   Firm Agar (4% to 6% Agar) | 
Prevents swarming of Proteus mirabilis, P.
  vulgaris and Clostridium tetani | 
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·   Fletcher’s Agar 
·  
  Ellinghausen and McCullough Medium 
·   Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) Media | 
Solid media for isolation of Leptospira | 
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·   Glycerol Saline Transport Medium | 
Transport stool specimen for typhoid bacilli | 
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·   Heated Blood Agar/Chocolate Agar | 
Growth of fastidious organisms (E.g. Hemophilus
  influenzae, Neisseria
  gonorrhoeae and S. pneumoniae | 
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·   Hoyle’s Tellurite Lysed Blood Agar 
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  Tinsdale Medium | 
Selective media for isolation of Corynebacterium
  from throat swabs | 
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·   Loeffler Serum Slope | 
Stimulation of metachromatic granules in Corynebacterium
  diphtheriae | 
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·   Lowenstein-Jensen Medium 
·  
  Middlebrook Media | 
Selective media for isolation of Mycobacterium
  tuberculosis from sputum and other samples | 
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·   MacConkey Agar | 
Differential media for Enterobacteriacaeae (i.e.,
  lactose fermenting and non-lactose fermenting) | 
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·   MacConkey Bile Salt Lactose Agar 
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  Brilliant MacConkey Agar 
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  Leifson’s Deoxycholate-Citrate Agar (DCA) 
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  Wilson and Blair’s Brilliant Green Bismuth- Sulphite Agar (BBSA) 
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  Taylor’s Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar (XLD) 
·   Hektoen Enteric Agar 
·   Salmonella–Shigella Agar | 
Differential and media for isolation of Salmonella
  and Shigella from stool specimens | 
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·   Mannitol Salt Agar | 
Selective and indicator media for S. aureus | 
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·   Modified Barbour Stoenner Kelly medium (BSK) | 
Specialized media for Borrelia burgdorferi | 
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·   Modified Korthoff’s Medium | 
Liquid media for isolation of Leptospira | 
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·   Modified New York City Medium (contains colistin, lincomycin, trimethoprim,
  amphotericin B) | 
Selective media for Neisseria gonorrhoeae | 
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·   Mueller-Hinton Agar | 
Performing antimicrobial susceptibility for bacteria | 
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·   Nutrient Agar (1% to 2% Agar) | 
Basal media in microbiology 
Supports the
  growth of all non-fastidious organisms | 
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·   Non-Nutrient Agar | 
Cultivation of parasites (e.g., Acanthamoeba) | 
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·   Peptone Water | 
·     Basal media for
  preparation for carbohydrate fermentation media 
·    
  To ascertain whether a bacteria is motile or non-motile 
·     Basis for Indole test | 
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·   Phenol-Red Egg Yolk Polymyxin Agar | 
Selective media for isolation of Bacillus cereus
  from food, feces, and vomitus | 
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·   Pike’s Media | 
Preservation of S. pyogenes, pneumococci, and
  Hemophilus influenzae in nose and
  throat swabs | 
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·   Polymyxin B-lysozyme-EDTA-Thallous
  Acetate (PLET) | 
Selective media for isolation of Bacillus
  anthracis from soil and other medium materials containing numerous spore
  formers of other species | 
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·   Polymyxin B, Neomycin, Fusidic Acid
  Media (PNF) | 
Selective media for S. pyogenes (or β-hemolytic Streptococcus) | 
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·   PPLO Medium (Contains Sterol) | 
Specialized media for Mycoplasma pneumoniae | 
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·   Pre-Reduced Anaerobically Sterilized
  (PRAS) Media | 
Commercially available media for anaerobic organisms | 
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·   Proteose Peptone-Yeast Extraction
  Broth | 
Media for carrying out biochemical tests for
  anaerobes | 
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·   Requirements of X and V Factors | 
Isolation of Haemophilus influenzae | 
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·   Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI)
  1640 Medium | 
Cultivation of malarial parasites (i.e., Plasmodium) | 
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·   Robertson Cooked Meat Broth (RCMB) | 
·      Growth of anaerobes
  (e.g., Clostridium) 
·     
  Maintaining stock cultures of anaerobic organisms | 
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·   Salt-Cooked Meat Broth (Cooked Meat
  Broth with 10% NaCl) | 
Enrichment media for isolation of S. aureus
  from heavily contaminated materials | 
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·   Semisolid Agar (0.05% to 0.1% Agar) | 
Prevents convection current and allows the growth of
  anaerobic and micro-aerophilic organisms | 
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·   Skirrow’s Campylobacter Medium
  (contains polymixin B, trimethoprim, vancomycin) 
·  
  Preston Campylobacter Medium (contains polymixin B, rifampicin, trimethoprim) 
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  Campy Blood Agar 
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  CVA Medium (contains cefoperazone, vancomycin, amphotericin) | 
Selective media for Campylobacter jejuni | 
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·   Smith-Noguchi Medium | 
Cultivation of nonpathogenic treponemes (e.g.,
  Reiter strain of Treponema phagedenis) | 
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·   Sorbitol MacConkey Agar | 
Isolation of verocytotoxin-producing
  (enterohemorrhagic) E. coli of 0157 type (as it fails to ferment
  D-sorbitol) | 
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·   Stuart Transport Media 
·  
  Amies Transport Media | 
Maintaining the viability of gonococci on swabs
  during transportation | 
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·   Tetrathionate Broth 
·  
  Gram-Negative Broth 
·  
  Selenite-F Broth | 
Enrichment media for isolation of Shigella
  and Salmonella from stool samples | 
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·   Thayer-Martin Medium (contains
  vancomycin, colistin, nystatin) | 
Selective media for Neisseria gonorrhoeae | 
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·   Thioglycollate Broth 
·  
  Trypticase Soy Broth | 
All purpose enrichment broth for anaerobes, aerobes,
  micro-aerophilic, and fastidious organisms | 
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·   Todd Hewitt Broth with Antibiotics | 
Selective and enrichment for Streptococccus
  agalactiae in female genital specimens | 
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·   Triple Sugar Iron Agar (TSI) Medium | 
Differentiation of various members of
  Enterobacteriaceae | 
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·   Wilkins-Chalgren Agar | 
Performing antimicrobial susceptibility of anaerobic
  bacteria  | 
Source:Microbiology notes
 






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