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Samples can then be taken from the resulting colonies and a microbiological culture can be grown on a new plate so that the organism can be identified, studied, or tested. The modern streak plate method has progressed from the efforts of Robert Koch and other microbiologists to obtain microbiological cultures of bacteria in order to study them.
Streak a beta-lysin–producing strain of aureus down the center of a sheep blood agar plate. The test organism streak should be 3 to 4 cm long. Streak test organisms across the plate perpendicular to the S. aureus streak within 2 mm. (Multiple organisms can be tested on a single plate). Incubate at 35°-37°C in ambient air for 18-24 hours.
Appropriate methodologies (including inducible clindamycin resistance) for testing antibiotic susceptibility are important because resistance to clyndamicin (antimicrobial resistance) can occur in some GBS strains that appear susceptible (antibiotic sensitivity) to clyndamicin in certain susceptibility tests.
Micrograph of a gram-positive coccus and a gram-negative rod. A Gram stain of mixed Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ATCC 25923, gram-positive cocci, in purple) and Escherichia coli (E. coli ATCC 11775, gram-negative bacilli, in red), the most common Gram stain reference bacteria
Antibiotic disks are used to test the ability for an antibiotic to inhibit growth of a microorganism. This method, which is commonly used with Mueller–Hinton agar , is used by evenly seeding bacteria over a petri dish and applying an antibiotic treated disk to the top of the agar.
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Ames test procedure. The Ames test is a widely employed method that uses bacteria to test whether a given chemical can cause mutations in the DNA of the test organism. More formally, it is a biological assay to assess the mutagenic potential of chemical compounds. [1]