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Errol E.S.Kwan at massey.ac.nz
Wed Mar 22 21:52:10 EST 2000


>From the sounds of the experiment Riffi wants to sample the air.
Expose the plate and see what grows.  For this I would suggest a
nutrient agar plate, not a selective one such as blood agar.  


On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:43 -0800, sc68
<dch1944NOdcSPAM at netzero.net.invalid> wrote:

>First you need to decide what type of agar to use. If you want to grow
>something simple get some blood agar plates, take a cotton swab and
>swab you hand. Streak the plat with the swab, put in an incabuter
>within 24 hrs at body temp you will see Staplococcus epidermitus
>growing . It is non-patogenic and interesting to study. If you are more
>adventursome swab you throat in the same manner, put it on bloog agar
>and you will get 2 maybe 3 different types of bacteria
>
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