Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five Years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1991, 128 p.): Part II. Essential media and reagents for isolation and identification of clinical pathogens: Priority grading of pathogens, culture media, and diagnostic reagents: Lower respiratory tract

Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five Years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1991, 128 p.)

Part II. Essential media and reagents for isolation and identification of clinical pathogens

Priority grading of pathogens, culture media, and diagnostic reagents

		(introduction...)
		Blood culture
		Cerebrospinal fluid specimens
		Urine
		Stool culture
		Lower respiratory tract
		Upper respiratory tract
		Urogenital specimens for agents of sexually transmitted diseases
		Pus and exudates
		List of recommended culture media and diagnostic reagents for the intermediate microbiological laboratory

Common pathogens

Pathogens with high priority

Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Haemophilus influenzae
Staphylococcus aureus
Klebsiella pneumoniae

Pathogens with intermediate priority

Enterobacteriaceae
Candida albicans
Branhamella catarrhalis

Culture media and diagnostic reagents

Isolation media
blood agar	1
chocolate agar	1
MacConkey agar	1
Lstein-Jensen medium	2
Sabouraud dextrose agar	3
selective blood agar for Haemophilus (bacitracin or vancomycin)	3
Identification reagents
optochin disc	1
V and XV factors	2
coagulase plasma	1