Chandrasekhar: Yeast is just a nice way to say fungus. And it can cause itching, it can cause swelling, ... Whittier: The red plate is a sheep blood agar plate and it grows all bacteria.

Rare Sheep Could Be Key To Better Diagnostic Tests In Developing World Date: August 24, 2009 Source: Stanford University Medical Center Summary: The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks ...

Before testing, an aliquot of stored bacteria was transferred from a micro-bank bead to blood-agar plates (trypticase soy agar with 5% sheep blood, Becton Dickinson Company, Heidelberg, Germany ...

The new bacterium species, Variovorax durovernensis, on chocolate and 5 percent sheep’s blood agar in petri dish. The researchers in London in the U.K. believe that it likely jumped over from sheep.