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Review for Lab Practical #1. MLAB 352 Dr. Mohamed A. El-Sakhawy. Lecture Outline. Exam format Biosafety Staining Four-way plate streak Plate counts Media types Temperature classification Oxygen classification Control with chemicals and antibiotics. Format of the Lab Practical.
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Review for Lab Practical #1 MLAB 352 Dr. Mohamed A. El-Sakhawy
Lecture Outline • Exam format • Biosafety • Staining • Four-way plate streak • Plate counts • Media types • Temperature classification • Oxygen classification • Control with chemicals and antibiotics
General Biosafety Rules • NO food or drink in lab. • NO cosmetics in lab. • NO open-toed shoes in lab. • Lab doors will remain closed at all times. • NO mouth pipetting. • Use care when handling potentially hazardous materials. • Wear appropriate personal protective equipment at all times. • Dispose of all microbiological materials in designated orange biohazard bags. • Dispose of all sharps and glass in designated sharps containers. • Notify the instructor immediately when there is an accident or spill. • Notify the instructor of pertinent medical conditions.
When You Begin Work for the Day… • Wash your hands. • Disinfect the surface of your lab table. • Put on your goggles. • Put on your lab apron. • Put on gloves.
When You Are Finished for the Day… • Appropriately dispose of all waste. • Disinfect the surface of your lab table. • Remove gloves inside-out and dispose in biohazard waste. • Remove apron, fold inside-out, and store in your drawer. • Remove goggles and store in your drawer. • Wash your hands before leaving the lab.
Types of Bacterial Stains • Simple stain – Stains cells but not background • Heat-fixed (killed) bacteria • Negative stain – Stains background but not cells • Live bacteria • Differential stain – Stains only certain types of cells based upon properties • Basic stain – Positive charge • Attracted to negatively-charged cell wall • Acidic stain – Negative charge • Repelled by negatively-charged cell wall
Reagents of a Differential Stain • Primary stain • First dye used in the staining process • Will initially stain all cells and then be removed from a subset • Mordant • Improves the ability of the primary stain to bind cells • Decolorizer • Removes the primary stain from a subset of cells • Counterstain • Second dye that stains decolorized cells
A Smear is Prepared by Spreading Bacteria on a Glass Slide Figure 4.15
Heat-Fixing a Bacterial Smear http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/Heat_fix.htm
Gram Stain (primary stain) (mordant) (decolorizer) (counterstain) http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/gram_stain.htm http://student.ccbcmd.edu/courses/bio141/lecguide/unit1/prostruct/grmix.html
Examples of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Organisms GRAM-POSITIVE GRAM-NEGATIVE Escherichia coli • Staphylococcus xylosus • Bacillus megaterium
Capsule Stain NO HEAT FIXATION! • Alcaligenes faecalis • Enterobacter aerogenes • Klebsiella pneumoniae • Serratia marcescens (primary stain) (decolorizer/counterstain) http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/capsule_stain.htm
Acid-Fast Stain (primary stain) (decolorizer) (counterstain) • Mycobacterium smegmatis Figure 4.18 http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/acid_fast.htm
Endospore Stain (primary stain) (decolorizer) (counterstain) • Bacillus megaterium http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/endospore.htm
Four-Way Plate Streak http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/4way.htm
Viable Plate Counts from Serial Dilutions • TNTC – Too Numerous To Count • More than 300 colonies • TFTC – Too Few To Count • Less than 30 colonies
Calculation of CFU/ml for Urine Specimens • Count colonies • CFU/ml = # colonies/calibrated loop volume • Threshold: 1 x 105 CFU/ml
Nutrient Agar (NA) • Special features: • None • Used for: • Culture of non-fastidious organisms http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agar_Plate.jpg
Sabouraud Agar/Broth • Selective media • Special features: • Acidic pH (5.5) • Used for: • Culture of fungi (yeasts and molds) http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/sabouraudagar.htm http://www.jlindquist.net/generalmicro/dfnewgfbpage.html
Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) Agar • Special features: • None • Used for: • BHI agar deeps used to determine oxygen classification http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/bhitubes.htm
Sodium Thioglycollate Broth • Special features: • Sodium thioglycollate – Reduces O2 to H2O • Resazurin (dye) – Pink when oxidized (O2 present), colorless when reduced (no O2) • Used for: • Culture of anaerobic organisms http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/thioglycollatebroth.htm
Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA) • Selective • Differential • Special features: • 7.5% NaCl • Mannitol (fermentation substrate) • Phenol red (pH indicator) • Used for: • Growth of halotolerant species (esp. Staphylococcus spp.) • Distinguishing between Staphylococcus spp. S. epidermis S. aureus/ S. xylosus http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/normalskinflora.htm
Blood Agar • Differential • Enriched • Special features: • Sheep’s blood (nutrients, hemolysis substrate) • Used for: • Culture of fastidious organisms • Distinguishing between bacteria by hemolysis patterns (esp. Streptococcus) http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/hemolysis.htm
Chocolate Agar • Enriched • Special features: • Boiled sheep’s blood (nutrients) • Used for: • Growth of fastidious organisms (esp. Neisseria spp.) • Distinguish Neisseria spp. using oxidase test http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/normalfloranasopharynx.htm http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/microbiology/DMIP/bsoxid.jpg
Mueller-Hinton Tellurite (MHT) Agar • Differential • Special features: • Tellurite (metal) • Used for: • Distinguishing Corynebacterium spp. (diphtheroids) based on reduction of tellurite to tellurium (black ppt.) http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/normalskinflora.htm
Columbia C-NA (CCNA) Agar • Selective • Differential • Special features: • Colistin (antibiotic) • Nalidixic acid (antibiotic) • Sheep’s blood (nutrients/hemolysis substrate) • Used for: • Selective culture of Gram-positive species • Distinguishing between Gram-positives based on hemolysis E. aerogenes E. faecalis E. coli S. xylosus http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/columbiacnaagar.htm
MacConkey Agar • Selective • Differential • Special features: • Crystal violet (dye) • Bile salts • Lactose (fermentation substrate) • Neutral red (pH indicator) • Used for: • Selective culture of Gram-negative organisms • Distinguishing between Gram-negatives based on lactose fermentation E. aerogenes E. coli S. epidermis S. typhimurium http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/macconkeyagar.htm
Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB) Agar • Selective • Differential • Special features: • Eosin (dye) • Methylene blue (dye) • Lactose (fermentation substrate) • Used for: • Selective culture of Gram-negative species • Distinguishing between Gram-negatives based on lactose fermentation P. aeruginosa E. coli S. xylosus E. aerogenes http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/embagar.htm
Snyder Test Agar • Selective • Special features: • Acidic pH (4.8) • 2% glucose (fermentation substrate) • Bromcresol green (pH indicator) • Used for: • Assessing levels of Lactobacillus spp. organisms in the mouth • Testing susceptibility to dental caries http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/snydertest.htm
All Microbes Have an Optimal Growth Temperature Psychrotrophs Figure 6.5
Incubation at Multiple Temperatures Identifies Temperature Classification Figure 6.4b
Examples of Temperature Classifications http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/temperatureclassification.htm
BHI Agar • Obligate aerobe • Microaerophile • Facultative anaerobe • Aerotolerant anaerobe • Obligate anaerobe http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/bhitubes.htm
Sodium Thioglycollate Broth • Obligate anaerobe • Obligate aerobe • Aerotolerant anaerobe • Facultative anaerobe http://iws2.collin.edu/dcain/CCCCD%20Micro/thioglycollatebroth.htm
The Disk Diffusion Assay Measures Sensitivity Figure 10.9
A Susceptibility Chart is Used to Determine Effects of Antibiotics