I've taken swabs of bacteria, and grown it in a petri dish's, know how do I get the bacteria count?
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There are many methods you could use. See the link for a few suggestions.
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USE DIFFERENT STAINING FOR BACTERIA EX. GRAM STAINING. LOOK UP DIFFERENT BACTERIA STAINING
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it's called a gram stain.  if the microbe stains, then it is said to be gram positive... if it doesn't stain (or stains poorly), then it's gram negative.\n\nyou have to use all the stains to complete the gram staining process
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If you are culturing someone who is sick - say someone who has pneumonia - then chances are the colonies that are all alike and have the greatest number on the plate are the ones causing the problem.  You run biochemical tests on them and determine if they are known pathogens.  Stuff gets complicated when you have someone with a bad immune system and the bacteria that are normally good are actually the bad ones.
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Your best bet would be to contact your local community college, or university, and ask to speak to whomever is in charge of the microbiology dept. and explain what your intentions are and they can let you know if you can indeed "use" their lab.  I have to say, however, if your actual project involves bacteria it is going to be a bit of a problem "removing your project" from that lab. You can chart and record your findings and perhaps do a photo pictorial outline, but you will not be allowed to remove any cultures or plates that have grown. (The labs are all the same with this policy/procedure as it falls under watch of the regulatory divisions in the government.  Think about it...they don't want positive growth plates to possibly contaminate outside of the research area...regardless of the specimen.)  Hope this helps and good luck with your project.
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They swipe a sort of QTip across the inside of your throat, then they swipe the swab across a shallow dish filled with a nutrient substance [agar agar?] and wait to see what grows on it, and usually put various antibiotics on whatever grows to see which one, if any, best kills it.
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take some LACTOBACILLUS powder supplement. drink lots of water. consult a Doctor if u get bloody diarrhoea.\n\nIt will help restoring the good bacterial flora inside your gastrointestinal tract.
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Print off the picture, cut out all areas that bacterial growth is observed and using a sensitive balance scale weigh the paper that has bacterial growth on it.  Works pretty good.
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yogurt with active live cultures,read the label
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goto http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/cgi-bin/measure.pl?MSRE_NO=11134xyzxyzCassava%2C%20rawxyz
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pretty unlikely you'll get sick from this,all that bacteria's in the same neighborhood anyway; just aim better next time!
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Do it in a laminar flow hood. Follow aseptic techniques.\nDepending on your use, you may suspend your bacterial culture in an appropriate medium.\n\nIf you dont have a laminar flow hood, do it the traditional way...\nwash your hands, then put alcohol.\nwork on a clean table - clean it with alcohol.\nlight an alcohol lamp in the area to clean air.\nopen your culture tube near the light.\ntransfer aseptically the bacterial culture to cuvette\n  - do it near light to ensure no contaminants from air\ncover the cuvetter near the light.
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you can surely rule out some things based on the type of plate you are using.  assuming that you have covered that base, you can separately pick a colony that you think may be a contaminant and look for differences in growth patterns, color, morphology, gram stain, growth on other media, and if all else fails, you can sequence it to find out exactly what it is.
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You could do what I did:\n\n1. Get UNFLAVORED geletin (like Jello, only with no color or taste), and mix it up. Put several samples into rubber maid containers and seal it.\n\n2. Buy several different kinds of sanitizer (Lysol, different scents of lysol, Pine sol, and those clorox wipes.).\n3. Get BRAND NEW Q-tips, and swipe areas you want to swipe (ie bathroom counters, toilet seats, under neath the toilet seat, faucet handles, kitchen counters, kitchen sinks...). Remember which Q-tips are from which room, and swipe the Q-tips all over the different geletin. (MAKE SURE you keep bathroom and kitchen Q-tip samples distinct. Mark on the bottom which ones are which) WAIT FOR A FEW DAYS. This will allow the germs you have collected to grow and get happy.\n\n4. Get some of those paper coffee filters. Sterilize a paper punch with a lighter, and punch one little circle for each sanitizer you want to test. \n5. Dip the different circles into solutions, and mark on the BOTTOM of the geletin container which one is which ("L" for lysol, "LA" for lysol apple scent...)....For clorox wipes, just punch out one of the wipes and use that. \n\n6. Wait for as long as it takes for a little clear ring to appear around the product's circle. The bigger the ring where there are no germs, the more effective the cleaning product. \n\nIMPORTANT: DON'T CLEAN YOUR TEST AREAS FOR A FEW WEEKS---otherwise the effects of the sanitizers won't be as strong.\n\nHope this helps!
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I'm not sure I understand the question, but I'll try anyway.  :)  If you are trying to determine IF you have both Pseudomonas and Klebsiella on in your culture, you can streak a MacConkey agar plate with the culture.  Pseudomonas cannot ferment lactose, so it will grow on the plate but remain colorless.  On the other hand, Klesiella can ferment lactose, so it will also grow on the plate but turn bright pink.  That's probably the easiest way to distinguish the two from a mixed culture.\n\nAs for the "local disinfectant" part of the question...are you trying to pull out these bacteria and then do disinfectant susceptibility testing on them?  If so, you can streak out the plate as mentioned above, then subculture each so you can get a pure culture.  Then, you do disinfectant tests on the bacteria separately by the disk diffusion method, etc.\n\nI hope that helps some!
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here are lists and pictures\n\nhttp://www.buddycom.com/bacteria/gpc.html
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When I was in Microbiology class, I was taught to stab the agar after streaking, to form sort of an Anaerobic chamber to look for Anaerobic hemolysis/growth. To this very day if and when I am working in microbiology, I still do a 4 way streak, and stab at the end. \nWhen streaking a BAP confirmation plate for tests such as a Quick Strep test, that stab can be of definite help.