Question | Answer |
Bordetalla. | Regan-Lowe agar. |
Borrelia. | BSK (Barbour Stoenner Kelly). |
Brucella. | Ruiz Castaneda. |
Campylobacter. | CAMP at 42C NOT 27C. |
Clamydia. | Cannot be grown on an artificial medium. It can be grown on any of these cell lines treated with cycloheximide: McCoy, HEp-2, HeLa, or buffalo green monkey cells. |
Chlamydophila. | Cannot be grown on an artificial medium. It can be grown on any of these cell lines treated with cycloheximide: McCoy, HEp-2, HeLa, or buffalo green monkey cells. |
Clostridium. | Anaerobic blood agar. |
Corynebacterium. | Aerobically on Tinsdale agar. Also Loeffler's medium, blood agar, and trypticase soy agar (TSA. |
Enterococcus. | 6.5% NaCl, bile-esculin agar. |
Escherichia. | MacConkey agar. |
Francisella. | Chocolate agar and Thayer-Martin media with appropriate additives. MacConkey agar is not reliable. |
Haemophilus. | Chocolate agar with hemin and NAD+. |
Helicobacter. | Medium containing antibiotics against other fecal flora. |
Legionella. | BCYE (Buffered charcoal yeast extract). |
Leptospira. | Specialized Leptospira Enrichment media. |
Listeria. | Enriched media. Mueller-Hinton agar. |
Mycobacterium. | Lowenstein-Jensen agar for TB. Mouse and armadillo foot pads for M. leprae. |
Mycoplasma. | Oxoid Mycoplasma Agar Base. Rarely cultured. |
Neisseria. | Thayer-Martin agar. |
Pseudomonas. | MacConkey agar. |
Rickettsia. | Brain heart infusion broth and Eagle's minimal essential medium. Rarely cultured. |
Salmonella. | MacConkey agar. |
Shigella. | Hektoen agar. |
Staphylococcus. | Enriched broth of blood medium. All species grow in the presence of bile salts. |
Streptococcus. | Blood agar. |
Treponema. | None! |
Vibrio. | Blood, MacConkey. Stimulated by NaCl. |
Yersinia. | MacConkey, CIN agar. (Cefsulodin, Irgasan, Novobiocin) |