The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on ... swim through the agar (be motile). SIM is commonly used to ...

But when the students go home, Grosser gets out her agar plates and brightly-colored bacteria collection to make literature-based agar art. Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser ...

3. Streak plate – the original culture is directly diluted across an agar surface using an inoculating loop. This is a simple & rapid method. All of these methods dilute or “thin out” a heavy ...

Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar ... would incubate plates at 37°C (body temperature) to allow quick growth and identification.

This allows the selected bacteria to be grown ... to allow quick growth and identification. Adding antibiotic or antiseptic soaked patches to pre-prepared agar plates. By adding filter paper ...