Plate Reading - Upper Respiratory I

Reading an upper respiratory culture.

This video is for instructional uses only and is not to be used for actual medical laboratory testing.

[eli-kwfmjc-doctrine]

Upper Resp cx: 43 male; throat swab; nasal pharyngeal swab

upper resp pathogens
strep pyogenes
strep pneumonia
candida sp
moraxella
haemolphyolis

choc : normal flora: several colony type; nothing stands out; how much normal flora and how much pathogenic
colony types on here but not on sba: do a gram stain.
sba: look for hemolysis: strep pneumonia; strep progenies; staph aureus

Mac: no growth: r/o enterobacteriace or pseudomonas

gs: could be moraxella catarrhallis;
heamophillus influenza requires choc

work up:

preliminary report:

[rubeng]

sir, thank you for your videos, can I make an approach with the odour of the culture? You know, fruits scent vs pseudomonas, semen like vs moraxella, bread vs candida, I just discovered this channel and it is very useful for me. Thank you very much!

[alexisodeloncabanlit]

Have u isolated Gardnerella vaginalis from a throat swab culture?

[samahahmed]

Thank you... But what was the pathogen then??