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What is chocolate agar?
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Chocolate agar is a differential media which is mainly used to identify fastidious bacteria that can’t grow on regular nutrient agar.
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What is the basis of chocolate agar?
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The basis of chocolate agar is that fastidious bacteria need growth factors such as hemin and NAD from the lysed red blood cells to grow, alongside the nutrients provided from nutrient agar.
Laboratory media and tests.
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Decks in class (34)
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Differential and selective media.2
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Chromogenic agar.2
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MacConkey agar.2
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Blood agar.2
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Chocolate agar.2
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EMB agar.2
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SS agar.2
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Mannitol salt agar.2
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Hektoen agar.2
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M-tergitol 7 agar.2
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XLD agar.2
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CLED agar.2
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SDA agar.2
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Citrate agar.2
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Urea agar.2
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Nutrient agar.2
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Media solidity.4
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Gram staining.2
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Morphology observation2
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Motility testing.2
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Indole utilisation testing.2
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Methyl red testing.2
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Voges-Proskauer testing.2
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Citrate utilisation testing.2
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H2S production testing.2
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Glucose fermentation testing.2
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Catalase testing.2
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Oxidase testing.2
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Gelatine hydrolysis testing.2
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Urea hydrolysis testing.2
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Nitrate reduction testing.2
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Sterility testing.6
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Bioburden assessments.7
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Endotoxin testing.2
