Bacterial culture methods — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Indicator (differential) media can also yield color changes due to differences in _____ of certain organisms

Answer: metabolism

Flashcard 2: _____ culture media have special nutrients added so that many bugs will grow

Answer: Enriched

Flashcard 3: What is used to differentiate between different strains of Streptococcus?_____

Answer: Hemolysis pattern

Flashcard 4: Oxygen is the final electron acceptor during cellular respiration in _____ (bacteria type)

Answer: obligate aerobes

Flashcard 5: What is the most commonly used non-selective culture media?_____

Answer: Blood agar

Flashcard 6: Blood agar is a _____ culture media because it allows us to identify bacteria based on their hemolytic pattern

Answer: differential

Flashcard 7: What is the oxygen dependency of Klebsiella?_____

Answer: facultative anaerobe

Flashcard 8: Which bacteria turns bright yellow on mannitol salt agar: _____

Answer: Staphylococcus aureus

Flashcard 9: Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Answer: Ricketsia rickettsii

Extra: headache; fever; rash beginning in wrists and ankles, progresses to trunk, palms, and solesdoxycycline

Flashcard 10: epidemic typhus

Answer: Rickettsia prowazeckii

Extra: rash that begins centrally and spreads but spares palms and solesdoxycycline