Table 1: Suspected Organisms, Relevant tests and expected results of tests for respective patients diagnose with UTIABBREVIATIONS
NA - Not applicable
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3 comments:
If i am not wrong, S.areus and enterococci does grow on Mac Conkey agar. S. aerus grows as a whitish small colonies on Mac Conkey. Entercocci though inhibited, does still grows as small colonies. Futhermore, there are cases of S. aureus does shows differnt types of haemolysis of blood agar. Refer to this link. This is also observed by me during my attachment in the microbiology lab.
http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year2/mmid/bms5300/bugs/stapaure.html
Mark. TinyFootz
Thanks for the info but actually for s aureus, most of the sources we viewed says that they are inhibited on macConkey agar so we are not that sure whether they will appear as white colonies but for enterococci, we did take note that some of the sources mentioned that colonies are grown. Also, we did take note of the diferent types of hemolysis on blood agar and thanks for the reminder.
Sorry just to add on, for s aureus, most cultured strains are generally beta hemolytic thats why we noted it in the post. But we should also be aware of some strains that can cause other types of hemolysis.
thanks.
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