As to consistency, what are the 3 types of bacterial culture media?
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they r :\nsolid media (in which agar is added)\nliquid media (no agar added)\nsemi-solid media (agar added so that it is just semi-solid)\n\nright??\n\n[P.S - when do i get voted for "best answer"??]
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sputum culture. Often pneumonia is treated without culturing and broad spectrum antibiotics, levaquin or Z-pack
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here are lists and pictures\n\nhttp://www.buddycom.com/bacteria/gpc.html
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I'm not sure what the question is? Are you looking for someone to write an entire grant proposal and post it here? I'm not sure if such a grant would be funded, because the means of preventing culture contamination are pretty well known: Work in a sterile environment (tissue culture hood). Spray everything with ethanol before you put it in the hood. Use disposable pipets, etc.
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Agar media is nutrified by adding small amounts of sugars, proteins, and minerals to it.  \n\nRemember bacteria are able to live on very little, and if the agar is not highly purified, there may be nutrients present as contaminants that you're not aware of.  Agar is a natural product, and so may easily be contaminated by things other than the pure polysaccharide.
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bleach\namonia(dont mix with bleach)\nAlcohol(pocibly boose and beer)\nAnti bacterial soap\nSpit/dog slober(ensymes)\nurin(amonia(eewww nasty))\nhot water\nsomething involving a microvave toster or some other heating apliance\nsalt water\nor you could shoot them(aim carefully, bacteria is small)
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rRNA,  r is ribosomal\n\nrecRNA, rec is recombinant\n\nmRNA, m is messenger\n\ntRNA, t is transfer\n\nsRNA,  s is soluble
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a positive culture...need antibioltic
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Is a simple culture enough?\nthe anerobic won't grow in air the aerobic will grow and give off O2. Yeasts will give off CO2.\nYou may need an autoclave to maintain temperature.\n{sorry not to be more helpful}
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M. tuberculosis is grown on egg based media in special environmental conditions. The culture emdia also contains glycerol and malachite green.
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Media is used to grow bacteria cultures, and a loop is stuck into a sample and then rubbed on the media in order to "plate" a sample.\n\nSome bacteria and microorganisms are easily identifiable when allowed to culture and gorw into a colony.  Also, some produce useful substances when grown.  For this reason, a loop is placed into a sample and rubbed on a plate with media.
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Some media grow most bacteria.  Blood Agar\nSome media usually used for anaerobic bacteria.\nChocolate Agar (not really chocolate, that's just the name)\nSome media of various types are used when the bacteria or fungus will only grow on certain nutrients.\nSearch on Mycobacteria Culture Media\nSearch on Fungus Culture Media\n\nThe most commonly used media other than the above are called Selective Culture Media\nhttp://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ks&p=Selective+culture+media\nThese grow some bacteria while inhibiting others\na typical one is Mannitol Salt Agar for culturing staphylococci\n\nSometimes liquid media are used for studying bacteria, also for saving them in a safe place on the way to the lab.\n\nThere are many different types of the latter.  Also used for studying how fast they grow.\n\nA complete answer is so long evryone would be turned off and no one would read it, probably including you.\n\nSo go to the url above and read, that is a good starting place.\n\nAnaeorbic bacteria are grow in an oxygen poor enclosure placed into the incubator.\n\nBadly run microbiology labs are a great source of potentially infective hospital bacteria.  They need to be well coordinated with the Infection Control personnel, thus aiding this effort.\n\nUsed media and cultures must be totally sterilized, especially where antibiotic sensitivity testing is involved.\n\nThat's the lab part in reducing environmental pollution and controlling the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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culture media is the media in which necessary elements for the growth of cells or organism. \n\nthese media are designed to give appropriate nurients to the organism for their development. the various parts as carbohydrates(usually a sugar glucose or fructose or complex media), amino acids, various salts etc are present.\n\nthe culture media can be classified in many ways as:\n\n1. complex or defined media: - \ncomlex is the one in which extracts of various organisms are used\ndefined media are those in which each component is added to make the final media.\n\n2. selective media and general media:-\nselective media is one in which we have added somethings which can be used by some perticular organisms only.\nwhereas general media are general for a large population.as the LB(luria bertani) is a general media.\nand many more classifications are there.\n\nso in a way culture media are the way to grow and develop organisms in artificial conditions for being used for studied.
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If you mean how do you culture, pure cultures of bacteria, then one of the easiest ways is to get a culture plate of generic media (broad appeal media, not specific to certain bacteria types), clean a nichrome wire in a flame, dip it into whatever has bacteria you wanna try and culture (old mayonnaise, rotten meat, lake water), streak (run it back and forth along one side of the media),  clean the wire in the flame, alter the media by 90 degs, streak again, making sure the wire passes into the area previously streaked a few times, repeat one more time, place the lid on the plate, turn upside down and place in a incubator for 24 to 48 hours. Pure cultures (those grown from a single bacterium) will have grown up in the second and third streaking areas.
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FastMedia™ LB is a LB based medium supplemented with selective antibiotic used for propagation of resistant bacteria in shake-flasks.\n\nFastMedia™ X-gal is a LB based agar medium supplemented with 100 µg/ml X-gal, 100 µg/ml IPTG andselective antibiotic used for detection of blue-white resistant colonies.
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you can surely rule out some things based on the type of plate you are using.  assuming that you have covered that base, you can separately pick a colony that you think may be a contaminant and look for differences in growth patterns, color, morphology, gram stain, growth on other media, and if all else fails, you can sequence it to find out exactly what it is.
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You're trying to design a medium?  Your question is mighty unclear.  \n\nAnyway, you include toxic compounds for many reasons, the main one is that if you have a particular bacterium engineered to to do a particular function, you design a co-effecting gene that permits the bacterium live in the presence of the toxic compund, and die if it loses the ability to survive in it.  This ensures that if the engineered genes are unstable, both genes are likely to fail, thus any defects or errors in the plasmid or inserted sequence that does your valuable work and allows it to survive in the toxic compounds will kill the bad batches.\n\npH indicators you insert for certain types of bacteria to determine the age (if acid or basic products are developed from the metabolism), resource availability (i.e. if the culture needs to be transferred to new media) and if what you have is contaminated or not (i.e. if you have a sample that's supposed to be always neutral or at a certain pH and suddenly your indicators start going bananas... not good.)\n\nAnd for the rest, you design differential/selective media for the single purpose of making sure your samples are pure and devoid of other species (eliminates the competition) and that if anything goes wrong, that it doesn't go wrong with your whole batch.  \n\nAlways flame your loops :)