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When bacteria from a throat swab are streaked on blood agar why is the agar stabbed several times with the loop?
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∙ 13y ago
first of all the method of stabbing the agar is no only for throat sample but can be for all specimen except for liquid samples such as urine. the second thing is by stabbing the loop, you can save your time to sterile the loop back. and the other thing is to make sure the loop are no hot anymore..
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoto create anaerobic pockets in the media that encourage the activity of the streptolysins a hemolytic organism produces to break down red blood cells; these organisms are microaerophiles they thrive in low oxygen conditions these pockets provide just what they need without removing all of the oxygen like incubating them anaerobically would
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