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This image showed a Petri dish culture plate containing Tinsdale agar medium, inoculated with a mixed culture of Corynebacterium diphtheria bacteria, which grew colonies that displayed the morphologically expected dark-brown to black coloration of this Gram-positive bacterium. Tinsdale agar plate growth (Remel, Lenexa, KS, USA) gave rise to black colonies with a brown halo, typical of cysteinase-producing C. diphtheriae, C. ulcerans, or C. pseudotuberculosis. Containing the hydrogen sulfide indicators, L-cysteine and sodium thiosulfate, Tinsdale medium is used when isolating and identifying C. diphtheria bacteria.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Theo Hawkins
Creation Date: 1979
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