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You mean people look for bacteria that have no human association? ;o))
Hmm...coming down hard on the microbial ecologists...keep in mind that focusing on the pathogens in anthropocentric and bacteria are sure to inherit the earth..
Cockroaches will inherit the Earth, at least in the ones from a local hospital that has just closed.
They'd quite happily swim in neat bleach!!!
I feel sorry for the people living close by when the place is pulled down - it could be a plague of biblical proportions
A good question, I could envisage* an experiment where one would want to determine the presence of, say, beta hemolytic bacteria in some situation like McDonald's Playland (copywrite, etc.), where incidentals might not grow on this agar. Determining mere presence would be best interpreted in light of numbers of all other bacteria, still it might be an interesting young student project involving BAP. Perhaps BAP is a bad example, I agree with you that it is easier to imagine enriching for particular bugs, but one could take any media that is described for enrichment, then incubate it at low O2 or high temps and by definition change it to a selective media.
*I used this unnecessary flowerey word to throw you off in case its past midnight when you sign on ;>
Not too bad tonight, I haven't brought much work home only an audit to write up, the autoclave SOP and two manuals to review - sigh. :o(
Where's "over here" by the way?
WALES :o)
I enjoy going around in circles...
Yeah, it's better than work
-Bryan
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