VIDEOS OF MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY TECHNIQUES
by Gary Kaiser

 

TOPICS

Preliminary Tips for Using a Microscope

Focusing Using Oil Immersion (1000X) Microscopy

Focusing Using Low Magnifications: Using the 10X Objective

Forms of Culture Media

Aseptic Technique Tips

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 Prepare a Slide for Staining when using Bacteria from an Agar Culture

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

How to Make a Gram Stain

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

Cetrimide Agar

How to Interpret the Results of MacConkey Agar

Media and Tests Used in Today's Lab - Softchalk Lesson

Beta Hemolysis on Blood Agar

Alpha Hemolysis on Blood Agar and Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Gamma Reaction on Blood Agar

How to Inoculate a Blood Agar Plate and Add a Taxo A (Bacitracin) Disc

How to Interpret Blood Agar with a Taxo A (Bacitracin) Disc; Identification of Streptococcus pyogenes

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