E coli. and Staph identification problem - (Nov/13/2013 )

Hello,

I have been given e coli, staphylococcus aureus and a selection of agars (see below) and I have to come up with an order in which I would culture them to start determining that the bacteria are in fact e coli and staphylococcus aureus as if I had no idea.

The agars are,

• Blood agar (incubate at 37^oC overnight)
• Baird Parker agar (incubate at 37^oC overnight)
• Slanetz and Bartley agar (incubate at 37^oC overnight)
• CLED agar (incubate at 37^oC overnight)
• Mueller Hinton agar (incubate at 37^oC overnight)
• Sabouraud agar (incubate at 25^oC for 3 days)
• TSC agar (incubate anaerobically at 37^oC overnight)
• Nutrient broth (incubate at 37^oC overnight)

​I am able to use the oxoid to determine what each of these do however, I have no idea how I'd use them to determine e coli or staph if I didn't know what they were from the beginning,

Any help would be massively appreciated!!!

Kind Regards,

RJay

So what do the different media do?  Are some differential and some selective (or both?)