... rods. I though I was going to have a difficult time trying to identify one species until I looked at the TSA plate. One of the bacteria gave off a blue-green pigment into the agar, this is only characteristic to one bacterium on the list of specific bacteria we could have. The other bacteria had a cream growth on the TSA plate but a red colony on ... ...

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... growth has been inhibited. The size of this zone of inhibition depends on the sensitivity of the bacteria to the specific antibiotic and the antibiotic's ability to diffuse through the agar. After 18 hours of incubation at 35oC, the clear zones are measured. In order to determine if an antibiotic will be effective in treating the bacterial infection, the zone of ... ...

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