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  • Classification: transport
    Purpose: Maintains organism viability from source to the laboratory
    Amie’s medium
    Cary-Blair medium
  • Enrichment
    Tetrathionate broth
    Alkaline peptone water
    Gram negative broth
    Selenite F broth
  • Increases the number of pathogenic vibrios in the specimen
    Alkaline peptone water
  • Increase the number of pathogens in stools
    Gram negative broth
  • Enrichment & isolation of Salmonella spp.
    Selenite F broth
  • Isolation of Salmonella and Shigella spp. from stools
    Tetrathionate broth
  • Selective-Differential
    Bacteroides Bile Esculin (BBE) medium
    Eosin Methylene Blue agar
    Hektoen Enteric agar (HEA)
    MacConkey agar
    Mannitol Salt agar (MSA)
    Salmonella –Shigella agar
    Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salt Sucrose Agar (TCBS)
    Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) agar
  • Selective for Bacteroides spp.
    Bacteroides bile esculin (BBE) medium
  • Differentiates bile resistant from bile sensitive Bacteroides spp.
    Bacteroides bile esculin (bbe) medium
  • Selective for gram negative bacilli
    Eosin Methylene Blue agar
    Hektoen Enteric agar (HEA)
  • Differentiates lactose fermenting from non-lactose fermenting gram negative bacilli
    Eosin Methylene Blue agar
    Hektoen Enteric agar (HEA)
  • Isolation and differentiation of lactose & non-lactose
    fermenting gram negative bacilli
    MacConkey agar
  • Isolation of mannitol-fermenting & non-mannitol fermenting staphyloccocci

    Mannitol Salt agar (MSA)
  • Isolation & differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella
    Salmonella –Shigella agar
  • Isolation & differentiation of Vibrio spp.
    Thiosulfate Citrate Bile Salt Sucrose Agar (TCBS)
  • Identification of gram negative enteric bacilli
    Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) agar
  • Differentiation of Salmonella & Shigella spp.
    Xylose Lysine Desoxycholate (XLD) agar
  • Selective for Group D Streptococcus & Enterococcus
    Bile Esculin medium (BEM)
  • Selective B7
    Bile Esculin medium (BEM)
    Bismuth Sulfite agar (BSA)
    Bordet-Gengou agar or Potato Blood Glycerol agar
    Brucella blood agar
    Biphasic medium of Brucella broth and agar in Castaneda bottle or septi-chek
    Blood Cystine Glucose agar with Thiamine
    Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract agar (BCYE)
  • Selective for Group D Streptococcus & Enterococcus
    Bile Esculin medium (BEM)
  • Isolation of Salmonella serotype Typhi
    Bismuth Sulfite agar (BSA)
  • Isolation of Bordetella pertussis
    Bordet-Gengou agar or Potato Blood Glycerol agar
  • Isolation of Brucella spp.

    Brucella blood agar
    Biphasic medium of Brucella broth and agar in Castaneda bottle or septi-chek
  • Isolation of Francisella tularensis
    Blood Cystine Glucose agar with Thiamine
  • Isolation of Legionella pneumophila
    Buffered Charcoal Yeast Extract agar (BCYE)
  • Isolation of Gardnerella vaginalis
    Human Blood Bilayer tween (HBT) agar
  • Human Blood Bilayer tween (HBT) agar is for isolation of
    Gardnerella vaginalis
  • Modified Kelly’s medium or Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly (BSK-II) is for Isolation of
    Borrelia spp.