We did a nose swab today and put it on a Manitol salt plate to see if we had staph in our noses.
Ours is the one on the bottom, Ari doesn't have any staph in her nose because there is no yellow. The cool thing was that Ari had a cold. So obviously staph is not always present when you have a cold.
The second thing we did in class was put our unknown bacteria on a plate and putting various cleaning agents on them to see if they work against our bacteria.
2% lysol: worked well the circumference was about 4cm
Spray lysol: did not work at all
Antibacterial hand soap: worked very well had 6cm
Lysol wipes: Worked pretty well was 4cm
Antiseptic mouthwash: did not work at all
Hand sanitizer: did not work at all
Clorox cleanup: Worked fairly well 2cm
Toothpaste: worked fairly well 2cm
Ari and I wanted to try again with the ones that worked very well so we retried it on some bacteria that we knew would really work.
the top is 2% lysol. It worked very well at killing the bacteria
far right is lysol wipe and it worked sort of well, but some of the bacteria started growing underneath the wipe, this must have been where the liquid cleaner must not have touched.
Bottom is is the antibacterial handsoap, and this one seemed to work the best. It ate away at the bacteria.
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