Greetings to everybody,

 

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Rodrigo, im from Peru, im currently going through my fourth year of medicine career. I have taken a microbiology course in which I have learned a lot of methods with agar plates to differentiate a wide range of microorganisms. Since i find this truly interesting, i was questioning myself what kind of investigations could i possibly do with this materials at my disposal. For example, having made some research in pubmed, i have found that usually they try to evaluate bacterial resistant to antibiotics with lets say disc difussion methods, etc. Nonetheless, i was wondering if you guys knew about some other type of investigation or subject that you could also do with agar plates and cultures. As a matter of fact, the only thing that is in my mind right now is this bacterial sensitivity subject, i cant seem to find another way to use agar plates.

 

I will appreciate any help you can provide!

 

Rodrigo

Edited October 17, 201411 yr by RodrigoCF

You can use different agar plates for isolating well known, and of course unknown bacteria. Than, after you obtain a clean-isolated colonies you can start working with them (e.g: Gram-staining, performing biochemical tests, picking colonies for MS analysis, etc...).