单词 | macconkey agar |
释义 | > as lemmasMacConkey agar 1. attributive and in the genitive. Used with reference to methods for the selective culture and identification of enteric bacteria; spec. (now chiefly in MacConkey agar) designating a bacterial culture medium containing bile salts, lactose and a pH indicator (see quot. 1996). ΚΠ 1902 J. W. H. Eyre Elements Bacteriol. Technique Index 367/2 MacConkey's capsule, stain, media. 1910 P. Hanson & H. Zinsser Textbk. Bacteriol. (heading) 138 MacConkey's bile-salt agar. 1938 Jrnl. Hygiene 38 316 A positive 44°C MacConkey test is indicative of the presence of Bact. coli I. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xviii. 240 Subcultures from the fluid media are made on to MacConkey's medium, from which non-lactose-fermenters are picked off and examined. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xviii. 256 The specific types..are identified by the slide agglutination technique with individual colonies from blood-agar or MacConkey plates. 1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 266 A tube of MacConkey broth is heated in a water bath to 44°C and inoculated lightly from the peptone water culture. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Pathol. 64 378 The morphologic and biochemical properties of Corynebacterium aquaticum should be considered for separation from related organisms such as Listeria monocytogenes, Corynebacterium species and oxidative Gram-negative rods that do not grow on MacConkey medium (Flavobacterium spp.). 1996 L. M. Prescott et al. Microbiology (ed. 6) 683 MacConkey agar is used for the selection and recovery of Enterobacteriaceae and related gram-negative rods. The bile salts and crystal violet in this medium inhibit the growth of gram-positive bacteria and some fastidious gram-negative bacteria... Lactose-fermenting bacteria produce colonies that are various shades of red, whereas nonlactose fermenters produce colorless colonies. < as lemmas |
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