The Human Normal (Commensal) Flora


The culture of a skin swab


 
Culture from a skin swb on fresh blood agar

The culture illustrated above was made by streaking a skin swab onto fresh blood agar and incubating aerobically overnight. Two colony types are apparent, a smallish, whitish colony and a flat, dry-looking grey colony.

Click here to investigate the small, white colony.

Click here to investigate the flat, grey colony.

Link to normal flora cases


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