Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria. The composition of the community of bacteria—called the "skin ...

The skin microbiome plays a key role in skin health and disease. While imbalances in skin microbiome composition are linked ...

In 1881, Robert Koch noted that bacteria grew optimally when inoculated in broth culture media containing fresh meat extract or beef serum. 2 He also encountered difficulties isolating pure cultures ...

"Research on the indigenous microbiota of the skin has mainly focused on metagenomic analysis, which does not involve culture methods, or on the analysis of individual bacteria in pure culture.

After isolating the bacteria in a makeshift lab, Koch realized he could elicit anthrax by injecting animals with pure cultures of the bacterium, eventually known as Bacillus anthracis. The doctor ...

The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria. The composition of the community of bacteria—called the "skin microbiota"—has serious ...