Inoculation

still are unable to cope even with the new techniques. Similar to CBT, it can be very time-consuming and again needs high levels of motivation, this would depend on the individual’s personality and symptoms of PTSD. (Psychological methods: Stress inoculation training (SIT),…

Introduction: Klebsiella pneumoniae is a part of the family Enterobacteriaceae. This genus is a gram negative and it has no flagella, which meant that this bacterium is not motile. However, it can move with the use of the current that is produced by the water. This bacterium has the ability to cause destructive change in a man or animals lungs if aspirated. In addition, this is also one of the most contacted pathogen in a Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) or nosocomial infection. In this…

During the phase and process of the bacterial unknown project, vast amounts of test were performed in order to determine an unknown species of bacteria. Within the many procedures of identifying the unknown bacteria, I was first given a tube with the unknown bacteria, from which later on I started subcultures by streaking bacteria from the original tube onto a tryptic soy agar (TSA) slant. Throughout the process of identifying the unknown, new subcultures were produced in order to use the newest…

After almost 80 years after its occurrence, the United States officially apologized for their involvement in the infamous Guatemala Syphilis experiment. It was an American research project aimed to test the capabilities of penicillin and how it could treat or affect an array of STDs. Guatemalans were intentionally infected with syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid without their knowledge or consent. The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment is considered one of the darker episodes in medical history, even…

DISCUSSION Unknown #297 was collected from a urine sample from a patient with a kidney infection, named Doris. There have been several tests that were performed at the University of Illinois clinical Laboratory to identify the unknown. Unknown #297 was identified to be Bacillus subtilis with the various tests that were conducted. Most of the results that were observed in the laboratory matched the expected results for the bacterium. All of the morphological characteristics results matched…

To determine the unknown’s morphology is the first step in narrowing down possible organisms. A MacConkey and Mannitol Salt Agar tests were conducted on the organism and revealed the following. No growth on the MacConkey plate resulting in a gram positive bacteria and the Mannitol Salt Agar result showed it could be Staphylococcus or Micrococcus. (1) A gram stain test was used in determining the shape, size and arrangement of the unknown bacteria (1). The unknown organism is heat fixed onto the…

improperly made NA plates. Streaking bacteria, Escherichia coli, onto the NA plate which originally had no growth of microbe can be performed to confirm the quality of NA plates. If the culture, Escherichia coli, forms colonies after 48 hours of inoculation at 30°C, this suggests that the lack of growth on the swabbed NA plates is indeed due to the absence of bacteria on that particular…

I observed nodules on the group of plants that had been inoculated. The presence of these nodules represents a successful inoculation. The non-inoculated group did not have nodules, indicating that no Rhizobia bacteria were present. In my hypothesis, I predicted that the plants with bacteria would grow taller, faster, and healthier than those plants without bacteria. My experimental data supports this hypothesis. With one exception, the inoculated plants were consistently taller than the…

This section will be a narrative summary of the characteristic of my unknown bacterium that’ll touch base on the morphology, cell well structure, temperature tolerance, antibiotic resistance, physiology and other interesting experiment results. First is going through the morphology of my unknown bacterium; will be talking about the shape, cell wall structure, and other characteristic using the results from tests such as gram staining, simple staining, and spore staining. According to my lab…

MYCORRHIZAE AND FORESTRY What is Mycorrhiza: Albert Bernard Frank (1885), in his study of relationships between soil microbes and plants, introduced the Greek term ‘mycorrhiza’, which means ‘fungus roots’. Mycorrhizas are highly evolved symbiotic association between roots of most higher/vascular plants and certain specialized soil fungi (Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Zygomyectes) that colonize the root cortex during periods of active plant growth both in the natural environment and in…