The medical assistant knows that gloves should be worn while handling specimens and sterile instruments and supplies should be used.  she wonders whether she is protecting the specimen from contamination or protecting herself from contamination from the specimen. which do you think is the reason to use gloves? Why sterile instruments and supplies rather than just clean? Explain your thoughts on these questions

Note that it is not appropriate to self-diagnose outside of a medical context and this is a completely hypothetical scenario. Imagine you have a rash on your foot. You're concerned that it's an infection and inoculate a sample onto an agar plate. You wonder, How can I figure out whether the pathogen is a bacterium vs a eukaryote? You decide to use lab supplies to get a basic understanding of the pathogen. Be specific about what tests you use and what you expect the results to be. Limit yourself to experiments we could do in our lab. What is a procedure you could do, involving making a slide of the organism?

Discarding dirty, used micropipette tips is one way to practice sterile technique. What are some other ways to practice sterile techique in lab this week? Check all that apply. Wear gloves while working with the EcoPlate, micropipette, and soil serial dilutions. Leave your sterile tubes uncapped and open, for airborne bacteria to enter. Keep food and drink off your lab bench. Remove your gloves before handling your computer, phone, etc. Use provided ethanol solution to clean your lab bench. Touch the soil or soil solutions with your bare hands or fingers.

In this section you will present the results of all the tests that was done to identify your organism Enterobacter aerogenes (your observation). In the laboratory we tabulated our results and created a chart (ID Matrix). Here you are describing the result of each test (in your own words). Include the name of the Indicator used (if any). Color changes that represent positive/negative results must be mentioned here. Your organism is a Gram-negative organism (Enterobacter aerogenes) You must discuss all the IMViC tests and Hydrogen sulfide test in DETAIL. 1. Indole test  2. Methyl red test 3. Vogues-Proskauer test  4. Citrate Test 5. Hydrogen Sulphide Test

Your lab partner is observing a Gram-stained slide of their unknown organism with 1000X total magnification.You look over and notice that he has not applied immersion oil to the slide. Explain what the role of immersion oil is in observing slides at 1000X total magnification. be as specific has possible

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Tell me three things about how cultures are handled in a clinical laboratory.

Which of the following is not an example of aseptic techniques? O Working in the presence of a flame. O Flaming the mouth of the test tube after use. Heat fixing the specimen. Flaming the loop before and after transfer. O Keeping Petri dishes closed when not in use,

Which of the following microscopes produce flat images by utilizing light in the non-visual spectrum to excite molecules within the specimens to produce visual light? (select all answers that apply)     Phase Contrast Microscope     Darkfield Microscope     Fluorescent Microscope      Brightfield Microscope      Electron Microscope      Confocal Microscope

Which of the following reasons is why slides should be labeled with a wax pencil before staining? (All three correct answers must be chosen to receive credit) Select All That Apply A To identify which bacterium/bacteria are placed on the slide B To prevent the slide from breaking during heat fixing ☐ C To identify which staining technique is being used OD To ensure the slide is in the correction orientation when placed on the stage ☐ E To give a focusing reference before attempting to find the bacterial smear ?