BIOL 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microorganism, Streptococcus, Ph Indicator

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 3070
• Professor: tanyanoel

Document Summary

Diseases differ but the diagnostic process often involves some common steps. Specimens range from swabs for a sore throat to fecal specimens. You must protect yourself and the patient while also keeping in mind the integrity of the specimen. Blood samples, puss, keep in mind that the body had many other microorganisms that are not actually causing any disease. In the clinical microbiology lab there are a number of things that are likely to take place once specimens have arrived in the lab. Inoculation can then take place followed by incubation and isolation where we can get pure cultures of bacteria: microscopic inspection will be done depending on the microbe to see if it is dependent on certain antibiotics. Tests will be taken out to identify the microbe. Inoculation- placing a sample into a container of medium that supplies nutrients for growth and is the first stage of culturing.