Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / December 2005

I need CLSI/NCCLS Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) M100-S15 Recommendations (english version). Anyone can help me?. Thanks
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  The West Coast Bacterial Physiologists
       http://wcbacterialphysiologists.ucdavis.edu/index.htm
and the West Coast Number Theory conference
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I'm wondering why it is safe to leave my chilis lying around at home,
drying out, and they just dry and don't go bad and mouldy.  Most other
fruits do, even in the fridge eventually.
I admit the flavour has lost some dimensionality after drying, but the

According to today's Toronto Star newspaper, at http://www.thestar.com/
, scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego "created mice with
small amounts of human brain cells". These mice "were each born with
about 0.1 per cent human cells in their heads", which doesn't "come

Do skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles all contain sarcomeres, if so why is
skeletal muscle striated, cardiac muscle partially striated and smooth
muscle not striated?

Are skeletal muscles the only muscles in the human body that are
mult-nucleated?
How do multi-nucleated cells divide?

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Although gene expression (the process by which genetic
information flows from genes to proteins) is extremely complex,
understanding the roles proteins play (concerning the human body) in

Dear Sir or Madam::
I am Sheng Jiang. I now use Immobilized pH Gradient (IPG) to determine
the isoelectric point (pI) of  beta-lactamase.
I used the mixture of 300µl urea ,CHAPS and 100µl the beta-lactamase

Is there any way to find out if beta strept are b haemolytic other than
by actually plating on sheep blood agar? We find it a little difficult
to get sheep blood. So we manage with chocolate agar from other blood.
Just a thought that it would make diagnosis so much easier if there ...

Raise the chickens in a green house type coup with clear plastic over the
chicken wire on the roof and tops of the walls. The purpose is to raise the
temperature in the chicken coups maybe 10 degrees or higher. [Experiments
could be done to find the best temperature.] The reason for ...

I've been going in and out from hospitals since I was 6, dealing with the
removal of polypses from my igmorium, which for some reason became infected
internally, probably by Staph around this age.
To make a long story short, Staph Aureus transferred from my nose to my

Does anyone out there know about Staph aureus Enterotoxins?
I am currently working on a project in an Immunology lab, and I don't
really have a microbiology resource.
The project entails taking nasal swab samples from human subjects,

The information helps explain why dogs are so diverse, and their
relationship to humans, according to scientists.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051207_dogfrm.htm

Here comes a biology question from a software
engineer, so please, have some patience with
me, :-) ...
Is there a simple way to make bacterial growth

Hi there everyone! I'm doing a little research 'bout Beggiatoa on
marine environments..If any of you can't help with a bit of
information, well you'd light up my day (and my mood! ^_^) Thanx folks!