The Last Day!

Today was our last day in class and lab for Medical Microbiology. The groups finished up their presentations (we were the last ones to go) and people finished up their individual projects. We got to see the results of our animal and human mouth swabs. The human mouth turned out to have the highest number of bacterial colonies but the cat had more different types of bacteria then the rest.

Top: Cat; Goat

Bottom: Rabbit; Human; Dog

Top: Human; Goat; Dog

Bottom: Cat; Rabbit

More work on our project

Today in lab we listened/watched one group's presentation then started working on our projects. We used our samples that we swabbed on Tuesday to make spread plates. We used a pipet with tips to get 100 microliters of each sample to spread on the plates. Then we used a glass rod that was sterilized with rubbing alcohol that was burned off with the Bunsen burner. Then we put them in the incubator that is set at 37 degrees Celsius. We'll check the results on Tuesday which is our last day of lab for this class.