choose the description that best fits a medium that has been designed to support the growth of MRSA while inhibiting all species and strains of other bacteria.

Question: Choose the description that best fits a medium that has been designed to support the growth of MRSA while inhibiting all species and strains of other bacteria.

-differential,

-selective,

-reducing,

-enriched,

-anaerobic

Answer:

"Selective" fits best for a medium that has been designed to support the growth of MRSA while inhibiting all species and strains of other bacteria.

Explanation:

The culture media used must be selective for the growth and inhibition of MRSA, which were earlier cultured by using traditional methods like blood agar, mannitol salt agar or can be Baird - parker agar which contains methicillin or oxacillin only in it or can be done when done combinedly with some other antibiotics. Mostly these selective media are used for the isolation of or for studying a particular bacteria strain. As the selective media only allows a certain kind to inhibit and suppresses the rest.