Medical pg online test series Q-5

MCQs PG Medical Entrance Mock Tests
#1
  1. QUESTION

Fildes technique is used for the culture of?

  1. Clostridium tetani
  2. Clostridium botulinum
  3. Clostridium difficile
  4. Clostridium perfringens

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Clostridium tetani grows on ordinary media.
Growth can be improved by blood and serum.
Because of marked tendency to swarm over the surface of the agar, surface colonies are difficult to obtain.
After incubating anaerobically for 24 hours, if the water of condensation at the bottom of a slope of nutrient agar is inoculated with a mixed cell culture, subcultures from the top of the tube will yield a pure growth of tetanus bacillus.
This is called Fildes technique.
Ref: Ananthanarayan and Paniker’s Textbook of Microbiology, 9th edition, p259, 260
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