VIDEOS OF MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY TECHNIQUES
by Gary Kaiser
Preliminary Tips for Using a Microscope
Focusing Using Oil Immersion (1000X) Microscopy
Focusing Using Low Magnifications: Using the 10X Objective
Aseptic Technique: Inoculation of broth tubes, slant tubes, and stab tubes
Aseptic Technique: Inoculating a Petri plate - Streaking for Isolation
How to Obtain Pure Cultures from Isolated Colonies
Trypticase Soy Agar, Columbia CNA Agar, and MacConkey Agar-Softchalk Lesson How to Read and Aseptically Handle a Sterile 1 milliliter (ml) Pipette How to Read and Aseptically Handle a Sterile 10 milliliter (ml) Pipette How to Pipette Using Aseptic Technique and use a Vortex Mixer How to Obtain Single Colonies for Counting Using the Spin Plate Method
How to Chemically Fix a Microscope Slide with Methanol
How to Heat-Fix a Microscope Slide
How to Make a Direct Stain of Bacteria
How to Make an Indirect Stain of Bacteria
A Review of the Critical Decolorization Step of the Gram Stain
Gram Stain Results_Softchalk Lesson
How to Interpret the Results of Starch Hydrolysis
How to Interpret the Results of Casein Hydrolysis
How to Interpret the Results of Carbohydrate Fermentation
How to Interpret the Results of SIM Medium
How to Interpret the Results of the Catalase Test
Performing an Oxidase Test: Gibson Oxidase Swab Method
Inoculating an Entero-Pluri Test
How to Interpret the Results of MacConkey Agar
Media and Tests Used in Today's Lab - Softchalk Lesson
Alpha Hemolysis on Blood Agar and Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae
How to Inoculate a Blood Agar Plate and Add a Taxo A (Bacitracin) Disc
How to Interpret the Results of SF Broth and Bile Esculin Agar; Identification of Enterococcus
How to Inoculate a Blood Agar Plate and Add a NB (Novobiocin) Disc
Staphylococcus aureus on Blood Agar with a NB Disc
Staphylococcus epidermidis on Blood Agar with a NB Disc
Staphylococcus saprophyticus on Blood Agar with a NB Disc
How to Interpret Mannitol Salt Agar
How to Interpret the Coagulase Test
Bauer-Kirby Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Procedure
Interpreting the Results of the Bauer-Kirby Method of Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing