Culture Media

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Transport media, to maintain viability of the organisms from the source to laboratory

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Amie's media

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Enrichment media for Vibrio

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Alkaline peptone water

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Selective and differential media. Selective for Bacteroides. Used to differentiate bile resistant from bile sensitive BACTEROIDES

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Bacteroides Bile esculin

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Nutrient agar base media with ferric citrate. Differential isolation & presumptive identification of Group D streptococci and Enterococci

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Bile Esculin Agar

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Selective & differential for cultivation of VANCOMYCIN resistant enterococci from clinical and surveillance specimens

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Bile Esculin Azide agar with vancomycin

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High protein media for growing a wide variety of bacteria

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Brain heart infusion

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used for isolation of Salmonella typhi. Produces black colonies

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Bismuth Sulfite Agar

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Cultivation of fastidious microorganisms, used in determining haemolytic reactions

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Blood agar

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For growing FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS

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Blood Cystine dextrose agar

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Isolation of Bordetella pertussis

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Bordet-gengou media

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Selective media for isolation of Salmonella other than S. typhi

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Brilliant green agar

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Enrichment and selective for Legionella spp.

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Bufferd Charcoal yeast extract agar with Antibiotics

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Selective holding medium for recovery of campylobacter spp.

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Campylobacter Thioglycollate broth

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Transport media for GI stool spx

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Cary and Blair media

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Used for separating Nocardia & streptomyces. Made from skimmed milk. Used as a media to test for hydrolysis

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Casein media

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Selective media for isolation of Campylobacter spp.

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Cefoperazone, Vancomycin, Amphotecrin (CVA)

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Selective for Yersinia spp. Maybe useful for isolation of Aeromonas spp

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CIN

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Cultivation of haemophilus and and pathogenic neisseria

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Chocolate agar (CAP)

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use for primary isolation of anaerobes. Used for clostridium spp

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Chopped Meat Glucose

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Used to stimulate production of Chlamydospores of Candida albicans

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Corn Meal Agar with 1% Twen 80

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Isolation of C. diphtheria

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Cystine tellurite blood agar (CTBS)

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Selective media for C. defficile

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Cycloserine cefoxitin fructose agar

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for isolation of Salmonella and Shigella

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Deoxycholate Citrate

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Selective media for vibrios

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Dieudonnes media

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selective media for isolation of Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma

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"E" agar with Edward Hayflick agar

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Used for the isolation and identification of Clostridium

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Egg yolk agar

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Selective media for Leptospira interrogans

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Ellinghausen

McCullough Johnson

Harris media

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Selective for H. ducreyi

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Fetal bovine serum w/ vancomycin

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used for isolation H. influenza

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Fildes Enrichment

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Differential, selective of salmonella & shigella from other enterics

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Hektoen-Enteric (HEA)

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Selective media for isolation of Gardnerella vaginalis

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Human blood bilayer tween

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Peptone base media with lactose. Used for isolation and differentiation of lactose & non-lactose fermenting enteric bacilli

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MAC conkey agar

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A modified MAC that contains Sorbitol instead of lactose as primary carbohydrate. For E. coli 0157:H7

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MAC conkey sorbitol agar

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selective isolation of staphylocci

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Mannitol salt agar

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For the isolation of Listeria monocytogenes

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Mc bride media

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For the isolation of M. tuberculosis

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Middlebrook 7H10 or 7H11

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Selective media for isolation of Borrelia spx

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Modified Kelly's medium or Barbour Stoenner kelly

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Selective for Neisseria gonorrhea

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New York City Agar

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Enrichment and selective media for bordetella pertussis

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Regan lowe

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used for fungus culture

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Sabouraud dextrose or Maltose agar

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Enrichment for the isolation of Salmonella spp.

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Selenite broth

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Selective for Campylobacter spp

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Skirro agar

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support growth of anaerobes, aerobes, microaerophilic and fastidious microorganisms

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Thioglycollate broth

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Selective and enrichment for S. agalactiae in female genital spx

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Todd Hewiit Broth

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used for urease test to urease productin which is ideal fo identification of proteus

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Urea agar