| 11. | Most " Mycobacterium " species, including most clinically relevant species, can be cultured in blood agar.
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| 12. | It consists of 0.6 % sodium chloride ( NaCl ) added to a simple blood agar slope.
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| 13. | Upon plating " C . indolis " on blood agar, it was found that they were non-hemolytic.
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| 14. | Like other cultured on blood agar plates.
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| 15. | The organism did not grow on blood agar, required L-cysteine, and showed significant quantities of branched-chain fatty acids.
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| 16. | All " Bacillus " species grow well on 5 % sheep blood agar and other routine culture media.
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| 17. | Alpha-hemolytic species cause oxidization of iron in hemoglobin molecules within red blood cells, giving it a greenish color on blood agar.
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| 18. | On egg media and sheep's blood agar, the colonies are flat with a distinctive pigmentation ranging from deep yellow to orange.
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| 19. | True infection with GABHS, rather than colonization, is defined arbitrarily as the presence of > 10 colonies of GABHS per blood agar plate.
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| 20. | The alpha-hemolytic bacteria are ones that exhibit a partial hemolysis with green coloration when grown on sheep blood agar ( see image .)
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