Culture media are used to grow bacteria in pure cultures for study. Solid media, like agar, allow bacteria to form distinct colonies that can be easily identified and isolated. Liquid media are used for inoculum preparation and some diagnostic tests. Different types of media, including enriched, selective, and indicator media, are used to isolate or identify specific bacteria based on their nutritional and biochemical properties. A variety of culture methods, such as streak plating, pour plating and liquid cultures, are employed for different purposes like isolating pure cultures, antibiotic testing, and maintaining stock cultures.
Details about all type of culture media for growing the bacteria,
the basic constituents of culture media
types of media
simple media
special media
complex media
transport media
sugar media
anaerobic media
Giving basic concepts regarding culture media and its classification on the basis of different properties like physical state, chemical composition and utility purposes.
culture media
CULTURE – Is term given to microorganisms that are cultivated in the lab for the purpose of studying them.
MEDIUM – Is the term given to the combination of ingredients that will support the growth & cultivation of microorganisms outside their natural habitats.
Necessary Requirements for Growth of Bacteria
Distilled Water
Nitrogen containing compounds
Peptone- Golden granular powder
Complex mixture of partially digested protiens by proteolytic
enzymes pepsin, trysin or papain
Peptones, Proteoses, polypeptides, aminoacids, inorganic salts like phosphates
potassium & magnesium
Accessory growth factors like nicotinic acid & riboflavin
Energy sources
Suitable Ph- 7.2 – 7.4
Solidifying agents:
Gelatin– Protien
Agar— Chief component is Long chain Polysaccharide
Melts at 95°c & solidify only when cooled to about 42°c
1- 2% yields a suitable gel eg. Non-nutritive agar
According to Physical State:
Liquid – Peptone Water, Nutrient Broth
Semisolid – Nutrient Agar Stabs
Solid – Blood Agar
According to Oxygen requirement:
Aerobic Medium
Anaerobic Media
Details about all type of culture media for growing the bacteria,
the basic constituents of culture media
types of media
simple media
special media
complex media
transport media
sugar media
anaerobic media
Giving basic concepts regarding culture media and its classification on the basis of different properties like physical state, chemical composition and utility purposes.
culture media
CULTURE – Is term given to microorganisms that are cultivated in the lab for the purpose of studying them.
MEDIUM – Is the term given to the combination of ingredients that will support the growth & cultivation of microorganisms outside their natural habitats.
Necessary Requirements for Growth of Bacteria
Distilled Water
Nitrogen containing compounds
Peptone- Golden granular powder
Complex mixture of partially digested protiens by proteolytic
enzymes pepsin, trysin or papain
Peptones, Proteoses, polypeptides, aminoacids, inorganic salts like phosphates
potassium & magnesium
Accessory growth factors like nicotinic acid & riboflavin
Energy sources
Suitable Ph- 7.2 – 7.4
Solidifying agents:
Gelatin– Protien
Agar— Chief component is Long chain Polysaccharide
Melts at 95°c & solidify only when cooled to about 42°c
1- 2% yields a suitable gel eg. Non-nutritive agar
According to Physical State:
Liquid – Peptone Water, Nutrient Broth
Semisolid – Nutrient Agar Stabs
Solid – Blood Agar
According to Oxygen requirement:
Aerobic Medium
Anaerobic Media
Culture medium or growth medium is a liquid or gel designed to support the growth of microorganisms. There are different types of media suitable for growing different types of cells. Here, we will discuss microbiological cultures used for growing microbes, such as bacteria ,fungi, yeast & algae.
Bacterial Culture Media
Culture medium is an environment which supplies the necessary nutrition for the growth of an
organism. Culture media contains nutrients and physical growth parameters necessary for
microbial growth. Organisms that cannot grow in artificial culture medium are known as obligate
parasites. Mycobacterium leprae, rickettsias, Chlamydias, and Treponema pallidum are obligate
parasites. Culture media generally provide sources of carbon, energy and nitrogen in the form of
available carbohydrates and amino acids.
Special media provide specific requirements as inorganic salts or particular growth factors.
Types of Culture Media
⎯ Basic media
⎯ Enriched media
⎯ Selective media
⎯ Enrichment media
⎯ Indicator (Differential) media
⎯ Transport media
1. Basic Media
These are simple media used to support the growth of microorganisms that do not have
special nutritional requirements. They include nutrient broth, peptone water, and nutrient
agar.
i. Nutrient Broth- 1
Filtrate of cooked fresh minced meat + 1% - peptone + 0.5% NaCl. Clear yellowish fluid
medium Sterilized in autoclave at- 121°C for 30 min. Base for most culture media.
ii. Peptone Water
Peptone + 0.5% NaCl dissolved in 1%- water Clear colorless fluid medium. Sterilized in
autoclave at 121°C- for 30 min. Base for sugar media Indole production test.
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Culture medium or growth medium is a liquid or gel designed to support the growth of microorganisms. There are different types of media suitable for growing different types of cells. Here, we will discuss microbiological cultures used for growing microbes, such as bacteria ,fungi, yeast & algae.
Bacterial Culture Media
Culture medium is an environment which supplies the necessary nutrition for the growth of an
organism. Culture media contains nutrients and physical growth parameters necessary for
microbial growth. Organisms that cannot grow in artificial culture medium are known as obligate
parasites. Mycobacterium leprae, rickettsias, Chlamydias, and Treponema pallidum are obligate
parasites. Culture media generally provide sources of carbon, energy and nitrogen in the form of
available carbohydrates and amino acids.
Special media provide specific requirements as inorganic salts or particular growth factors.
Types of Culture Media
⎯ Basic media
⎯ Enriched media
⎯ Selective media
⎯ Enrichment media
⎯ Indicator (Differential) media
⎯ Transport media
1. Basic Media
These are simple media used to support the growth of microorganisms that do not have
special nutritional requirements. They include nutrient broth, peptone water, and nutrient
agar.
i. Nutrient Broth- 1
Filtrate of cooked fresh minced meat + 1% - peptone + 0.5% NaCl. Clear yellowish fluid
medium Sterilized in autoclave at- 121°C for 30 min. Base for most culture media.
ii. Peptone Water
Peptone + 0.5% NaCl dissolved in 1%- water Clear colorless fluid medium. Sterilized in
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2. Need for Culture media:
• Bacteria: mixed population in nature
• By appropriate procedures they have to be grown
separately (isolated) on culture media and obtained as
pure culture for study
• Medium → Nutrients → support growth
Culture medium
Liquid medium Solid medium
3. Liquid medium:
• Diffused growth
• No characteristics for identification
• Difficult to isolate
• Earliest liquid medium: urine or meat broth used by Louis
Pasteur
Solid medium:
• Distinct colony morphology
• Characteristics → easy to identify
• Colony – macroscopically visible collection of millions of
bacteria originating from a single bacterial cell
4. • Earliest solid medium:
Cooked cut potato by Robert Koch
• For solidification
Gelatin was used - not satisfactory
- liquefy at 24oC
Agar
• Universally used for preparing solid medium
• Obtained from seaweed: Gelidium
• No nutritive value
• Not affected by the growth of the bacteria.
• Melts at 98°C & sets at 42°C
• 2% agar is employed in solid medium
5. Types of culture media
I. Based on their consistency
a) Solid medium
b) Liquid medium
c) Semi solid medium
II. Based on the constituents/ ingredients
a) Simple medium
b) Complex medium
c) Synthetic or defined medium
d) Special media
6. Special media
– Enriched media
– Enrichment media
– Selective media
– Indicator media
– Differential media
– Sugar media
– Transport media
– Media for biochemical reactions
III.Based on Oxygen requirement
- Aerobic media
- Anaerobic media
7. Solid media – contains 2% agar
• Colony morphology, pigmentation, hemolysis can be
appreciated.
• Eg: Nutrient agar, Blood agar
Liquid media – no agar.
• For inoculum preparation, Blood culture, continuous
culture.
• Eg: Nutrient broth
Semi solid medium – 0.5% agar.
• Eg: Motility medium
9. Simple media / basal media:
• Most common in routine diagnostic laboratories
Eg: Nutrient Broth, Nutrient Agar
• NB consists of peptone, meat extract, NaCl,
water
• NB + 0.5% Glucose = Glucose Broth
• NB + 2% agar = Nutrient agar
• Agar conc. Reduced (0.2 - 0.5%) = Semi-solid medium
10. Complex media
• Media other than basal media.
• They have added complex ingredients such as yeast
extract or casein hydrolysate, which consist of a mixture
of many chemical species in unknown proportions
• Provide special nutrients
Synthetic or defined media
• Media prepared from pure chemical substances
• exact composition is known
• Used for special studies, eg. metabolic requirements
• Eg: peptone water- (1% peptone + 0.5% NaCl in water)
11. Enriched media
• Substances like blood, serum, egg are added to the basal
medium.
• Used to grow bacteria that are exacting in their nutritional
needs.
• Eg: Blood agar, Chocolate agar, Loeffler's serum slope,
LJ medium.
Blood
agar
Chocolate
agar
12.
13. Enrichment media
• Liquid media used to isolate pathogens from a mixed
culture.
• Stimulate growth of desired bacterium
Inhibit growth of unwanted bacterium
• Media is incorporated with inhibitory substances to
suppress the unwanted organism → increase in numbers of
desired bacteria
• Eg:
Selenite F Broth – for the isolation of Salmonella, Shigella
Tetrathionate Broth – inhibit coliforms
Alkaline Peptone Water – for Vibrio cholerae
15. Selective media
• The inhibitory substance is added to a solid media
• Increase in number of colonies of desired
bacterium Eg:
Desoxycholate citrate medium for dysentery bacilli
TCBS – for V. cholerae
LJ medium – M. tuberculosis
Potassium tellurite agar- Corynebacterium
diphtheria
Wilson Blair bismuth sulfite medium- Salmonella
typhi
18. Indicator media
• contain an indicator which changes its colour when a
bacterium grows in them
• Eg:
Wilson-Blair medium – S. typhi forms black colonies
McLeod’s medium (Potassium tellurite)– Diphtheria
bacilli
Wilson-Blair Medium McLeod’s medium
20. Differential media
• Substances incorporated in it enabling it to distinguish
between bacteria.
• Eg: Mac Conkey’s medium
– Peptone
– Lactose
– Agar
– Neutral red
– Taurocholate
• Distinguish between lactose fermenters & non lactose
fermenters.
22. Sugar media
• Media containing any fermentable substance
• Eg: glucose, arabinose, lactose, starch etc.
• Media consists:
1% of the sugar in peptone water + Indicator
• Contain a small tube (Durham’s tube) for the detection of
gas by the bacteria
23.
24. Transport media
– Stuart’s medium – non nutrient soft agar gel containing
a reducing agent & charcoal
– Buffered glycerol saline – enteric bacilli
25. Anaerobic media
• These media are used to grow anaerobic organisms.
• Eg: Robertson’s cooked meat medium, Thioglycolate
medium.
26. • Culture methods employed depend on the purpose for
which they are intended.
• Purposes:
– To isolate bacteria in pure cultures.
– To demonstrate their properties.
– To obtain sufficient growth for the preparation of
antigens and for other tests.
– For bacteriophage & bacteriocin susceptibility.
– To determine sensitivity to antibiotics.
– To estimate viable counts.
– Maintain stock cultures.
28. STREAK CULTURE
• Used for the isolation of bacteria in pure culture from
clinical specimens.
• Platinum wire or Nichrome wire is used.
• One loopful of the specimen is transferred onto the
surface of a well dried plate.
• Spread over a small area at the periphery.
• The inoculum is then distributed thinly over the plate by
streaking it with a loop in a series of parallel lines in
different segments of the plate.
• On incubation, separated colonies are obtained over the
last series of streaks.
29.
30.
31. LAWN CULTURE
• Provides a uniform surface growth of the bacterium.
• Uses
– For bacteriophage typing.
– Antibiotic sensitivity testing.
– In the preparation of bacterial antigens and vaccines.
• Lawn cultures are prepared by flooding the surface of the
plate with a liquid suspension of the bacterium.
33. STROKE CULTURE
• Stroke culture is made in tubes containing
agar slope / slant.
• Uses
– Provide a pure growth of bacterium for
slide agglutination and other diagnostic
tests.
34. STAB CULTURE
• Prepared by puncturing a suitable medium – gelatin or
glucose agar with a long, straight, charged wire.
• Uses
– Demonstration of gelatin liquefaction.
– Oxygen requirements of the bacterium under study.
– Maintenance of stock cultures.
35. POUR PLATE CULTURE
• Agar medium is melted (15 ml) and cooled to 45oC.
• 1 ml of the inoculum is added to the molten agar.
• Mix well and pour to a sterile petri dish.
• Allow it to set.
• Incubate at 37oC, colonies will be distributed throughout
the depth of the medium.
• Uses
– Gives an estimate of the viable bacterial count in a suspension.
– For the quantitative urine cultures.
36.
37. LIQUID CULTURES
• Liquid cultures are inoculated by touching with a
charged loop or by adding the inoculum with pipettes or
syringes
• Uses
– Blood culture
– Sterility tests
– Continuous culture methods
• Disadvantage
– It does not provide a pure culture from mixed inocula.