What is the correct shape of the unknown bacterium growing on your mannitol salt agar

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Q: what is the culture media for gram-positive bacteria?

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Q: Why do we use the term CFU (colony forming unit) instead of reporting bacteria per ml? Explain.

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Q: Why is it critical to be able to determine the overall number of bacteria present in a food sample?

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Q: Would this bacteria be described as gram negative or gram positive? Describe the shape and…

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Q: What method of bacterial measurement does this graph represent? Is it considered direct, or…

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Q: what  are these bacteria growing on BA and Maconkey agar

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Q: What is the correct genus and species of your unknown Gram (+) bacterium?

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