Identification of an Unknown Enteric Organism
Purpose | To use the techniques you have learned to identify an unknown pure culture |
Materials | Same as in Experiments 24.2 and 24.3 except that your assigned culture is numbered, not labeled |
Procedures
- Prepare a Gram stain of your culture.
- Inoculate the culture on EMB or MacConkey, HE, and BiS plates, and streak for isolation.
- Inoculate all tubed media provided.
- Incubate plates and tubes at 35°C for 24 hours.
Results
Read and record your results across one line of the following table. Also record all results obtained by your neighbors with different isolates. Using table 24.3-1, identify the unknown organisms.