Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a new laboratory test that can rapidly identify the bacterium responsible for staph infections. This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with...
I know it is vague, but i am worried since it has been going around my team, it started as like a clear pimple, i popped it and cleaned it like 5 days ago but it is still there and on my elbow. Its pink soft skin in the middle and colorless shriveled dead looking skin on the outer of that. I...
I have a relly big pimple on my chin, and a small one above my lip. There are still little red spots (very little and fading) of where i had other little pimples on my chin. I also have just gotten rid of a small one on my nose, if it were staph, it wouldnt go away right? My brother has a staph...
My Nana just passed and they think that she died of a heart attack caused by an infection, possibly a staph infection. Anyway, when I told her goodbye, I held her hand and then kissed her hand before they took the tubes out. My bottom lip was chapped and swollen, due to allergies, but I kissed...
I would like to do plate counts from food samples (fruit) for staphylococcus areus. I have CLED medium, but I find that the fungus within the sample grows as a lawn, making it difficult to determine plate counts.
Which medium would improve this?