Unknown Lab Report
Unknown Organism #6
Ann Le (Phuoc)
May 6, 2010
Dr. Carrington
Microbiology Lab- MW 12:50
Le 1
I. Introduction
My unknown organism #6 is Morganella morganii, which is a gram-negative bacillus rods commonly found in the environment and also in the intestinal tracts of humans, mammals, and reptiles as a normal flora. (3, 5) This bacterium Morganella morganii, was first discovered in the 1906 by a British bacteriologist named H. de R. Morgan. (2) Despite its wide distribution, it is an uncommon cause of community-acquired infection and is most often encountered inpostoperative and other nosocomial settings. (2, 3) Morganella morganii infections respond well to appropriate antibiotic therapy; however, its
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Next I performed a KOH test to further confirm that my organism was a Gram-negative species. For the KOH test, I added 3 drops of 10% potassium hydroxide (KOH) to a small drop of distilled water onto a clean microscope slide, transferred a visible clump of organism to the KOH solution using my inoculating loop. I than mixed the cells into the solution using small, circular motions for 60 seconds and then lifted up the loop to look for what appears to be a “stringing” affect which means it’s confirmed that it is gram- negative species. Next, I created a streak plate using nutrient agar so that I could see pure culture of my organism. I aseptically obtained a loop full of my organism and gently inoculated one quarter of the nutrient agar plate by running the loop back and forth across the surface. I then flame sterilized the inoculating loop, allowing it to cool for 10 seconds, and then streaked the organism from quadrant I into quadrant II using a zigzag motion technique. I repeated those steps streaking from quadrant II to quadrant III and then streaking from quadrant III to quadrant IV. Once completed, I put the streak plate in the incubator at 37° for 24-48 hours. 48 hours later, I check my streak plate and it had a lot of growth on it. I was able to determine that the organism was definitely an off white color, opaque. The IV quadrant was the quadrant that best
Le 5 represented the colony. The whole colony was round, having
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The unknown bacteria plate chosen was plate #2. It was identified to be Micrococcus luteus. It is a gram positive, Coccus bacteria that is commonly found in dust, water, soil, and the air. M. luteus also thrives in the human mouth and upper respiratory tract. Sir Alexander Fleming discovered it in 1928 before he identified penicillin. It is part of the normal flora on human skin as well as other mammals. Since it is part of normal flora it is normally not pathogenic, but can become opportunistic in an immune-deficient person. It has been known to cause septic shock, UTI’s, and even pneumonia. Micrococcus luteus is both urease and catalase positive. It does not utilize tryptophan for indole production. It is a facultative anaerobe. Mobility is not present for this bacterium. Starch is also not hydrolyzed and oxidase is not present.
This experiment was conducted to find the genus and species of an unknown bacteria prescribed by the lab teacher, which was unknown bacteria GA3 in my case. Identification of unknown bacteria techniques are used on an every day basis to figure out what type of bacteria it is and to find the best method of how to treat a patient with this bacteria (1). All five “I’s” of Microbiology were used in the testing for the unknown culture. Inoculation was used several times to put the unknown culture into agar plates or into biochemical test tubes. After Inoculation of these tubes or plates, they always were placed into the incubator for further growth and development. Isolation was used to make sure we got the correct bacteria we were testing for. After each further isolation, we gram stained the culture and inspected the culture under a microscope to further help in the identification process of the unknown bacteria. Multiple tests were done on the unknown culture to make sure we were confident in what kind of bacteria the unknown was.
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Aim: To classify unknown substances according to their structure type and to observe how the structure of materials affects their uses.
The results that I observed by Gram Staining was Gram Negative rod (bacillus). Then, I performed a Negative Stain in order to further more validate that I had bacillus, since Negative Staining would provide an accurate determination of the shape of the microbe by staining the background of the microbe. In observation of my unknown using Negative Staining; I knew that I had a microbe with bacillus.
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-B2 was Gram positive cocci that seemed to cluster and also showed no growth on the EMB plates.
The pH of saliva was 7 this means that it is neutral and there is a large amount mineral reserves, unlike when it is 6.25 to 6.75 which indicates that there is an excess of acid and that the there is a very low amount of mineral reserves and that on its own is not healthy. The saliva contributes to supporting the pH by two components. To begin with, the flow of saliva kills starches that could be utilized by microorganisms and evacuates acids created by microscopic organisms (Baliga et al, 2013). Second, acidity from beverages and nourishments, as well as bacterial activity, is neutralized by the buffering action of salivation (Baliga, 2013). The solution that was mixed with water and Biuret test reagents was clear because there was no protein presence,
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Mahan, C.R. Lehman, D.C. and Manuselis, G. (2014). Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology. 5ed. Elesevier. UK.