Pet Project

Hey, remember that contaminated plate from last post? I found something cool on it today - a mixture of bacteria! So, aside from the lost sample, I did get this nifty picture to show you:

Notice the large brown colonies of Staph present on this blood agar plate. That's the Masque strain sample that I plated. Depressingly, it seems that the particular fluroquinolone that I treated it with hasn't really done much good in controlling the colonies - there's fewer of them, but they're also larger. Notice also the greyish colonies. I have not yet identified these bacteria, but I'll be sure to give you an update as soon as I do. Until then, I'll continue to keep you posted on the Masque project.