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Dr. Amit kumar
amitkumarshahi90@gmail.com
• Culture media:
Clinical
specimens eg
pus ,urine
Inoculat
e BACTERI
A Isolation
CULTURE
MEDIA
CONSTITUENTS OF CULTURE MEDIA
SODIUM
CHLORIDE AND
OTHERS
PEPTONE
MEAT
EXTRACT
• Peptone:
• source of nitrogen
• digested protein
• SOURCE: lean meat or other protein material (heart muscles , casein) and
digested by pepsin.
• Constituents: proteoses , aminoacids , inorganic salts (phosphates , potassium
and magnesium) and nicotinic acid and riboflavin.
• Neopaptone , proteose peptone , mycological peptone
• 0.5% sodium chloride : maintain the salt concentration of media
equal to cytoplasm of microorganism
• Agar /agar agar :
• solidifying agent (powder form)
• Melt in water after boiling
• Jellifies after cooling
• Seaweeds
• Components : long chain polysaccharides , protein , long chain fatty acids,
inorganic salt (calcium and magnesium)
• Concentration :
• Solid : 1-2%
• Semisolid : 0.5%
• 6% to inhibit proteus swarming
• Meat extract :
• Prepared : beef
• Constituent : protein degradation product , inorganic salts ,
carbohydrates and growth factors
• Yeast extract:
• Prepared : washed cells of Baker’s yeast
• Constituent : aminoacids , inorganic salts (potassium and phosphates) and
carbohydrates
• vitamins, carbohydrates, organic nitrogen compounds and salts.
• Blood and serum :
• Enriched media
• Fastidious bacteria
• 5-10% sheep blood
• Serum is sterilized after collection
I BASED ON CONSISTENCY
II) BASED ON INGRADIENTS
Peptone water
Peptone:1% peptone + Nacl (0.5%) + D/W
PEPTONE
NB
• USE OF BASAL MEDIA :
• preparation of enriched media
• NB (study bacterial growth curve)
• Study colony morphology
• Pigment demonstration
• Semisolid media: motility of bacteria ,
maintaining stock culture
NA +BLOOD
PSEUDOMONAS ON
NA
• B) complex media :
• other than basal media
• added with complex ingredients such as yeast extract or casein hydrolyse
• mixture of many chemical species in unknown properties.
C
D) SPECIAL MEDIA :
Loeffler’s serum slop Blood culture
media
i)
5-10% SRBC + molten NA at 47o c = BA
Type of media : differential media and enriched
media
Blood
agar
• Chocolate agar: 5-10% SRBC + molten NA at 70o c = CA
• haemophilus influenza
– Loeffler serum slope: isolation of corynebacterium diphtheriae
Beef serum: solidifying agent
– +
– Heart muscle: amino acids
– +
– Peptic digest of animal tissue: amino acids
– +
• Sodium chloride: ions.
– +
– Dextrose: carbohydrate
– +
– Egg: solidifying agent
• Blood culture bottle: microorganism from blood (SEPTECIMEA , BACTERIMEA)
sodium polyanetholsulphonate (SPS) :
• inactivate serum factors toxic to organism
beef heart : amino acids
+
calf brain infusion : amino acids
+
disodium phosphate: buffer
+
sodium chloride : maintain salt = cytoplasm
+
glucose
•
• BRUCELLA
BHI AGAR + BHI
BROTH
• Ii) Enrichment media
• Liquid media + inhibitory substances
• used isolation of organisms from mixed culture (stool , sputum)
• Tetrathionate browth : salmonella typhae
• Selenite F broth : shigella
• Alkaline peptone water : vibrio cholerae
iii)
Magnesium Sulfate
Glycerol
L- Asparagine nitrogen and vitamins
Monopotassium
Phosphate
carbon source , favorable to the growth
of the human type tubercle
Prevent contaminants
coagulates
enhance organism growth
and act as buffer
enhance organism
growth and act as buffers
phenyl red
Citrate : bromothymol blue
Triple sugar iron : phenyl red
iv)
iv)
• CLED (Cysteine lactose electrolyte-deficient agar): differentiate LF
and NLF
• Inhibit swarming of proteus
• Specially use for urine specimen
v)
• Vi) Transport
medium
• Use for transporting of
samples
• Used for delicate
organism
• Eg : stuart’s medium :
Gonococci
• Buffer glycerol saline:
enteric bacilli
VII)
METHODS OF CULTURE
SPECIMENS CULTURE MEDIA
PLATINUM WIRE :
1) Bacteriological loop:
2) Bacteriological straight wire:
stroke
stab
Streak culture
Use : to obtained isolated
colonies
LAWN CULTURE/CARPET CULTURE
USE :
AST , BACTERIAL
TYPING
STROKE CULTURE
USE : URESE TEST
TO OBTAINED PURE
GROWTH
STAB CULTURE
POUR –PLATE
CULTURE AND SPREAD
METHOD
USE :
TO OBTAINED VIABLE COUNT
OF BACTERIA
1
ml
9ml nb +
1ml bs
9ml nb 9ml nb 9ml nb
1 ml 1 ml 1 ml
LIQUID CULTURE
DISADVANTAGE :
DONOT PROVIDE PURE CULTURE FROM MIXED GROWTH
IDENTIFICATION NOT POSSIBLE
EXAMPLE : BLOOD CULTURE
TURBIDITY
• Metal or glass jar with metal lid
with a screw (to close airtight)
• Pressure gauge and outlet and
inlet
• Air evacuate through outlet and
hydrogen induce through inlet
• Residual oxygen remove with
hydrogen gas
• sachet containing aluminium
pellets coated with palladium
react with hydrogen and replace
o2 in the form of water(h2o)
Chemical indicator : methylene blue
Gaspak system
sachet containing aluminium pellets coated with palladium
HYDROGEN TO FORM H2O (OXYGEN
REMOVED)
OXYGEN REMOVAL
sachet containing
aluminium pellets
coated with
palladium
Culture media and methods
Culture media and methods
Culture media and methods