Blood Agar
As a Bacterial Culture Medium, Citrated Sheep Blood Agar Is a Practical Alternative to Citrated Human Blood Agar in Laboratories of Developing Countries
... sheep blood were collected by an aseptic technique from healthy sheep who were not receiving antibiotics at the time of blood ...brinated blood was collected in a sterile glass bottle containing ...
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Effect of Blood Agar from Different Animal Blood on Growth Rates and Morphology of Common Pathogenic Bacteria
... animal blood from other species on bac- terial morphology and ...sheep blood [8]. In countries such as Nigeria, expired human blood from blood banks is often the most accessible ...sheep ...
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Inhibition of Bacteroides fragilis on blood agar plates and reversal of inhibition by added hemin
... Considerably more hemin had to be added to the BHI blood agar than to the regular BHI agar to obtain the same size colonies, and with RESULTS laked lysed blood plates, even larger amount[r] ...
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Evaluation of Sulfamethoxazole Trimethoprim Blood Agar Plates for Recovery of Group A Streptococci from Throat Cultures
... 5:650-655, 1977 which contains sulfamethoxazole plus trimethoprim SXT-BA to the conventional blood agar surface plate SBA and a modified blood agar pour plate plus broth method for the r[r] ...
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A NEW METHOD FOR STREAKING BLOOD AGAR PLATES
... Tests were also carried out with similar paper discs but with different patterns cut in the paper. Slits in the shape of crosses and interrupted lines were used in 24 cases. Throat cultu[r] ...
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<p>Clinical Performance of BD Kiestra InoqulA Automated System in a Chinese Tertiary Hospital</p>
... colonies per plate, and the quantity of bacterial growth were recorded and compared between the two methods for each sample. The number of potential pathogens isolated was de fi ned by the number of unique colonies that ...
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FREQUENCY OF MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS FROM PATIENTS WITH LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION IN KHARTOUM STATE, SUDAN
... Sheep blood agar and on chocolate agar, the identity of the isolates was confirmed by DNAse test, Tributyrin test and reduction of nitrate to ...
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Evaluation of a Chromogenic Culture Medium for the Detection of Clostridium difficile
... CD agar), 289 fecal specimens were analyzed using two other culture media of blood agar and cycloserine-cefoxitin-fructose-egg yolk agar while enzyme immunosor- bent assay and polymerase chain ...
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Clinical and microbiological profile of non-tuberculous mycobacterial endophthalmitis—experience in a tertiary eye care centre in Southern India
... The vast majority of NTM infections are caused by the Runyon group IV organisms M. fortuitum and M. chelonae. Other less common species include Mycobac- terium sulzi, Mycobacterium flavescens, Mycobacterium ...
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Primary culture media for routine urine processing
... It has been recommended that routine microbiological processing of urine specimens include quantitative plating onto blood agar medium along with a selective and differential agar such a[r] ...
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Study on Molecular Characterisation of Anti-Microbial Resistance in Salmonella Enterica Serovar typhi and paratyphi from blood culture isolates in a tertiary care hospital
... The broth was examined regularly for bacterial growth like turbidity and subculture was done on Nutrient agar, Mac Conkey agar and on Blood Agar plate. The plates were incubated for 24 hours ...
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Occurrence and detection method evaluation of group B streptococcus from prenatal vaginal specimen in Northwest China
... (sheep blood agar (SBA), Columbia colistin-nalidixic agar (CNA), and selective carrot broth (SCB)) followed by analysis using a latex agglutination ...
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Cultivation of Nocardia spp on chemically defined media for selective recovery of isolates from clinical specimens
... We evaluated 44 Nocardia isolates, 18 group IV mycobacterial isolates, and 4 Streptomyces isolates for growth on blood agar BA and on carbon-free agar containing single or double substra[r] ...
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Comparison of anaerobic susceptibility results obtained by two methods of inoculum preparation
... We evaluated the use of inocula prepared directly from blood agar plates in agar dilution susceptibility tests of anaerobic bacteria and compared the results with susceptibility results [r] ...
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Medium for selective isolation of Fusobacterium nucleatum from human periodontal pockets
... To determine the suppression rate of CVE agar for other bacteria, we compared total viable counts recovered on CVE agar with those recovered on T-soy blood agar for 35 strains, represent[r] ...
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Clonal dissemination and colony morphotype variation of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan
... screening agar or blood agar revealed that 25 of the 32 isolates produced two distinct colo- nial morphotypes characterized phenotypically by a smooth and a rough appearance, respectively ...
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Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
... Streptococcus is considered to be one of the most dangerous causes of Clinical mastitis in cows. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of extracts prepared from different parts of the flowing plants: ...
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Molecular detection of virulance nuc gene of staphylococcus species isolated from sinusitis’s patients by multiplex PCR
... nutrient agar and blood agar (Himedia/ India) at 37°C for overnight under aerobic condition, then the positive cultures of Staphylococcus species on were cultured on mannitol salt agar at ...
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Reduction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa sputum density during a cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbation does not predict clinical response
... Columbia Blood Agar (CBA), MacConkey Agar, (MAC), Chocolate Agar (CHOC), Burkholderia cepacia selective agar, and Mannitol Salt ...
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On the red fluorescence emission of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
... A number of studies have indicated that bacteria able to emit red fluorescence can be detected by light in- duced fluorescence technique and killed by photody- namic therapy. The objective of this study was to in- ...
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