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18 Feb 2018

"Pour plate and streaking technique to obtain pure cultures"

1. Discuss the relative convenience of pour- and streak-plate techniques in culturing clinical specimens.

2. How do you decide which colonies should be picked from a plate culture of a mixed flora?

3. Why is it necessary to make pure subcultures of organisms grown from clinical specimens?

4. What kinds of clinical specimens may yield a mixed flora in bacterial cultures?

5. When more than one colony type appears in pure culture, what are the most likely sources of extraneous contamination?

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Trinidad Tremblay
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