02-16-2011, 07:17 PM
what is sattellate phenomina?
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microbiology Q - raheem
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02-16-2011, 07:57 PM
Bacterial culture of H. influenzae is performed on agar plates, the preferable one being chocolate agar, with added X(hemin) & V(NAD) factors at 37°C in a CO2-enriched incubator.[5] Blood agar growth is only achieved as a satellite phenomenon around other bacteria. what exactly it is??
02-16-2011, 08:13 PM
the phenomenon in which certain bacterial species grow much better in the immediate vicinity of colonies of other unrelated species, owing to the production of an essential metabolite by the latter species.
02-16-2011, 10:23 PM
e.g. Staph aureus will hemolyze BAP and when hemophilus is inoculated with it in the same media ---> it grows in the vicinity as a satellite colonies
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