Post Traumatic Wound Infection: Laboratory Identification

Staph on BA

  • The photomicrograph of the surface of a 5% sheep blood agar illustrates the colonies that grew out of the foot drainage after 24 hours at 35C. They are entire, convex, smooth, and have a slight yellow pigmentation. Hemolysis is not observed. A gram stain was prepared from one of the isolated colonies.

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