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Foundations in Microbiology
Chapter
3
PowerPoint to accompany
Fifth Edition
Talaro
Copyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display.
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Tools of the Laboratory:The Methods for Studying
Microorganisms
Chapter 3
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The 5 I’s of culturing microbes
1. Inoculation – introduction of a sample into a container of media
2. Incubation – under conditions that allow growth
3. Isolation –separating one species from another
4. Inspection5. Identification
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Isolation
• If an individual bacterial cell is separated from other cells & has space on a nutrient surface, it will grow into a mound of cells- a colony
• A colony consists of one species
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Isolation technique
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Media – providing nutrients in the laboratory
• Most commonly used:– nutrient broth – liquid medium containing beef extract
& peptone– nutrient agar – solid media containing beef extract,
peptone & agar
• agar is a complex polysaccharide isolated from red algae– solid at room temp, liquefies at boiling (100oC), does not
resolidify until it cools to 42oC– provides framework to hold moisture & nutrients– not digestible for most microbes
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Types of media
• synthetic – contains pure organic & inorganic compounds in an exact chemical formula
• complex or nonsynthetic – contains at least one ingredient that is not chemically definable
• general purpose media- grows a broad range of microbes, usually nonsynthetic
• enriched media- contains complex organic substances such as blood, serum, hemoglobin or special growth factors required by fastidious microbes
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Enriched media
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• selective media- contains one or more agents that inhibit growth of some microbes and encourage growth of the desired microbes
• differential media – allows growth of several types of microbes and displays visible differences among desired and undesired microbes
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selective & differential media
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Selective media
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Differential media
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Miscellaneous media
• reducing medium – contains a substance that absorbs oxygen or slows penetration of oxygen into medium; used for growing anaerobic bacteria
• carbohydrate fermentation medium- contains sugars that can be fermented, converted to acids, and a pH indicator to show the reaction; basis for identifying bacteria and fungi
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Carbohydrate fermentation media
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• magnification – ability to enlarge objects
• resolving power – ability to show detail
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compound light microscope
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Pathway of light
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Effect of wavelength on resolution
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Oil immersion lens
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Effect of magnification
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Types of light microscopes
• Bright-field – most widely used, specimen is darker than surrounding field
• Dark-field – brightly illuminated specimens surrounded by dark field
• Phase-contrast – transforms subtle changes in light waves passing through the specimen into differences in light intensity, best for observing intracellular structures
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3 views of a cell
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Fluorescence Microscope
• Modified compound microscope with an ultraviolet radiation source and a filter that protects the viewer’s eye
• Uses dyes that emit visible light when bombarded with shorter uv rays.
• Useful in diagnosing infections
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Electron microscopy
• Forms an image with a beam of electrons that can be made to travel in wavelike patterns when accelerated to high speeds.
• Electron waves are 100,000X shorter than the waves of visible light.
• Electrons have tremendous power to resolve minute structures because resolving power is a function of wavelength.
• Magnification between 5,000X and 1,000,000X
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2 types of electron microscopes
• Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) – transmits electrons through the specimen; darker areas represent thicker, denser parts and lighter areas indicate more transparent, less dense parts
• Scanning electron microscopes (SEM)– provides detailed three-dimensional view. SEM bombards surface of a whole, metal-coated specimen with electrons while scanning back and forth over it.
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Transmission Electron Micrograph
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Scanning Electron Micrograph
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Specimen preparation
• wet mounts & hanging drop mounts – allow examination of characteristics of live cells: motility, shape, & arrangement
• fixed mounts are made by drying & heating a film of specimen. This smear is stained using dyes to permit visualization of cells or cell parts.
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Staining
• cationic dyes - basic, with positive charges on the chromophore
• anionic dyes - acidic, with negative charges on the chromophore
• surfaces of microbes are negatively charged and attract basic dyes – positive staining.
• negative staining – microbe repels dye & it stains the background
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Staining
• simple stains –one dye is used
• differential stains – use a primary stain and a counterstain to distinguish cell types or parts. examples: Gram stain, acid-fast stain and endospore stain
• special stains: capsule and flagellar stains
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Types of stains