Sunday, March 13, 2016

List of culture media used in microbiology

Many types of bacterial growth media are used to culture (grow) microbes in the laboratory. Here's a summary of defined, complex, selective and differential media.

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Media
Uses
·   Alkaline Peptone Water
Enrichment media for Vibrio cholerae
·   Alkaline Salt Transport Medium
·   Taurocholate Peptone Transport Medium
Transport media for diarrheal diseases suspected of being caused by V. cholerae
·   Anaerobic Media
Liquid media by addition of
·     Glucose (0.5 % to 1 %)
·     Ascorbic Acid (0.1 %)
·     Cysteine (0.1 %)
·     Sodium Merceptoacetate (0.1 %)
·     Thioglycollate (0.1 %)
·     Particles of cooked meat broth
·   Bile Salt Agar
·   Thiosulphate Citrate Bile Salts-Sucrose Agar (TCBS)
·   Monsur’s Tellurite Taurocholate Gelatin Agar
Selective media for V. cholerae
·   Bile Esculin Agar (Contains 40% Bile)
Selective media for Enterococcus species (Black coloration of the medium)
·   Blood Agar
·     Enriched media (Supports the growth of fastidious organisms, e.g. Streptococcus)
·     Indicator media to show hemolytic properties of certain organisms (Staphylococcus aureus: β-Hemolytic; Streptococcus pneumonia and S viridans: α-Hemolytic; Enterococcus: Non-Hemolytic)

·   Bordet-Gengou Agar
·   Charcoal Blood Agar
·   Regan-Lowe Medium (Charcoal Agar with blood, cephalexin and Amphotericin B)
Isolation of Bordetella pertussis
·   Brain Heart Infusion Broth
Used in blood culture bottles (both adult and pediatric patients)
·   Buffered Charcoal Yeast Agar (BCYA)
·   Feeley Gorman Agar
Specialized media for isolation of Legionella
·   Campylobacter Thioglycollate Broth
Selective holding media for recovery of Campylobacter species
·   Castaneda Medium
Biphasic medium for the isolation of Brucella
·   Cefoxitin Cycloserine Fructose Agar (CCFA)
·   Cefoxitin Cycloserine Egg-Yolk Agar (CCEY)
Selective media for isolation of Clostridium difficile form suspected cases of pseudomembranous colitis/antibiotic-associated diaeehea
·   Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin medium (CIN Medium)
Selective media for Yersinia (and may be used for Aeromonas also)
·   Columbia-Colistin Nalidixic Acid agar (CNA Agar)
Selective media for the isolation of Gram-positive cocci
·   Cooked meat broth
·   Nutrient agar slopes
·   Semisolid nutrient agar stabs
·   Heated blood agar slopes
In general, used for preservation and storage of bacterial cultures
·   Crystal violet blood agar
Selective media for Streptococcus pyogenes
·   Cysteine Lactose Electrolyte Decient Media (CLED Media)
Most commonly used media for culturing urine samples
·   Egg Saline Medium
Preservation of cultures of Gram-negative bacilli
·   Egg Yolk Agar
Detection of lipase and lecithinase activity of Clostridium species
·   Ellner’s Medium
·   Medium of Duncan and Strong
·   Medium of Phillips
·   Alkaline Egg Medium
Specialized media to induce sporulation in Clostridium
·   Fildes Blood-Digest Agar and Broth
·   Levinthal’s Agar
Enriched media for recovery of Haemophilus inuenzae
·   Firm Agar (4% to 6% Agar)
Prevents swarming of Proteus mirabilis, P. vulgaris and Clostridium tetani
·   Fletcher’s Agar
·   Ellinghausen and McCullough Medium
·   Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) Media
Solid media for isolation of Leptospira
·   Glycerol Saline Transport Medium
Transport stool specimen for typhoid bacilli
·   Heated Blood Agar/Chocolate Agar
Growth of fastidious organisms (E.g. Hemophilus inuenzae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and S. pneumoniae
·   Hoyle’s Tellurite Lysed Blood Agar
·   Tinsdale Medium
Selective media for isolation of Corynebacterium from throat swabs
·   Loeffler Serum Slope
Stimulation of metachromatic granules in Corynebacterium diphtheriae
·   Lowenstein-Jensen Medium
·   Middlebrook Media
Selective media for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum and other samples
·   MacConkey Agar
Differential media for Enterobacteriacaeae (i.e., lactose fermenting and non-lactose fermenting)
·   MacConkey Bile Salt Lactose Agar
·   Brilliant MacConkey Agar
·   Leifson’s Deoxycholate-Citrate Agar (DCA)
·   Wilson and Blair’s Brilliant Green Bismuth- Sulphite Agar (BBSA)
·   Taylor’s Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate Agar (XLD)
·   Hektoen Enteric Agar
·   SalmonellaShigella Agar
Differential and media for isolation of Salmonella and Shigella from stool specimens
·   Mannitol Salt Agar
Selective and indicator media for S. aureus
·   Modied Barbour Stoenner Kelly medium (BSK)
Specialized media for Borrelia burgdorferi
·   Modified Korthoff’s Medium
Liquid media for isolation of Leptospira
·   Modied New York City Medium (contains colistin, lincomycin, trimethoprim, amphotericin B)
Selective media for Neisseria gonorrhoeae
·   Mueller-Hinton Agar
Performing antimicrobial susceptibility for bacteria
·   Nutrient Agar (1% to 2% Agar)
Basal media in microbiology
Supports the growth of all non-fastidious organisms
·   Non-Nutrient Agar
Cultivation of parasites (e.g., Acanthamoeba)
·   Peptone Water
·     Basal media for preparation for carbohydrate fermentation media
·     To ascertain whether a bacteria is motile or non-motile
·     Basis for Indole test

·   Phenol-Red Egg Yolk Polymyxin Agar
Selective media for isolation of Bacillus cereus from food, feces, and vomitus
·   Pike’s Media
Preservation of S. pyogenes, pneumococci, and Hemophilus inuenzae in nose and throat swabs
·   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
·   Polymyxin B, Neomycin, Fusidic Acid Media (PNF)
Selective media for S. pyogenes (or β-hemolytic Streptococcus)
·   PPLO Medium (Contains Sterol)
Specialized media for Mycoplasma pneumoniae
·   Pre-Reduced Anaerobically Sterilized (PRAS) Media
Commercially available media for anaerobic organisms
·   Proteose Peptone-Yeast Extraction Broth
Media for carrying out biochemical tests for anaerobes
·   Requirements of X and V Factors
Isolation of Haemophilus influenzae
·   Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI) 1640 Medium
Cultivation of malarial parasites (i.e., Plasmodium)
·   Robertson Cooked Meat Broth (RCMB)
·      Growth of anaerobes (e.g., Clostridium)
·      Maintaining stock cultures of anaerobic organisms
·   Salt-Cooked Meat Broth (Cooked Meat Broth with 10% NaCl)
Enrichment media for isolation of S. aureus from heavily contaminated materials
·   Semisolid Agar (0.05% to 0.1% Agar)
Prevents convection current and allows the growth of anaerobic and micro-aerophilic organisms
·   Skirrow’s Campylobacter Medium (contains polymixin B, trimethoprim, vancomycin)
·   Preston Campylobacter Medium (contains polymixin B, rifampicin, trimethoprim)
·   Campy Blood Agar
·   CVA Medium (contains cefoperazone, vancomycin, amphotericin)
Selective media for Campylobacter jejuni
·   Smith-Noguchi Medium
Cultivation of nonpathogenic treponemes (e.g., Reiter strain of Treponema phagedenis)
·   Sorbitol MacConkey Agar
Isolation of verocytotoxin-producing (enterohemorrhagic) E. coli of 0157 type (as it fails to ferment D-sorbitol)
·   Stuart Transport Media
·   Amies Transport Media
Maintaining the viability of gonococci on swabs during transportation
·   Tetrathionate Broth
·   Gram-Negative Broth
·   Selenite-F Broth
Enrichment media for isolation of Shigella and Salmonella from stool samples
·   Thayer-Martin Medium (contains vancomycin, colistin, nystatin)
Selective media for Neisseria gonorrhoeae
·   Thioglycollate Broth
·   Trypticase Soy Broth
All purpose enrichment broth for anaerobes, aerobes, micro-aerophilic, and fastidious organisms
·   Todd Hewitt Broth with Antibiotics
Selective and enrichment for Streptococccus agalactiae in female genital specimens
·   Triple Sugar Iron Agar (TSI) Medium
Differentiation of various members of Enterobacteriaceae
·   Wilkins-Chalgren Agar
Performing antimicrobial susceptibility of anaerobic bacteria


Source:Microbiology notes

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