The Facebook page for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recently shared a photo of a large bacterial culture plate bearing a handprint made of microbial colonies taken by Tasha Sturm.

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or “culture,” bacteria living in your stool. This can help them learn if any disease-causing bacteria are present. They will smear a sample of your stool on special plates. Those plates will ...

Despite its fishy name, salmonella has no connection to the underwater creature salmon. Rather, the story behind the bacteria ...

The bacteria take a long time to grow, and the researchers were about to throw out the culture plates when P. acnes finally reared its head. Infections with P. acnes may be under-recognized ...

A sputum culture requires minimal effort ... The laboratory will place the sample on a special plate that has a nutrient that helps bacteria or other pathogens present in your sputum grow.