Changes

In addition to using these plates for your original innoculation, there are media available which can confirm the identity of an organism such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa that has growth on the standard media initially. Always test your growth media by maintaining known organisms and innoculating the media using normal conditions so that you can be sure that your methods are giving diagnostic results. Alternative methods of identifying an organism include biochemical tests such as oxidase or catalase reactions or latex agglutination tests.

In addition to using these plates for your original innoculation, there are media available which can confirm the identity of an organism such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa that has growth on the standard media initially. Always test your growth media by maintaining known organisms and innoculating the media using normal conditions so that you can be sure that your methods are giving diagnostic results. Alternative methods of identifying an organism include biochemical tests such as oxidase or catalase reactions or latex agglutination tests.

===Sensitivity testing==

===Sensitivity testing===

sensitivity testing requires a standardised approach to plate innocultion and disc strengths used  - the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) guidelines publish a methology to ensure this. The plate requirement, dilution of the culture, the strength of antibiotic disc used, the interpretation of the disc size and the culture conditions are all specified in these guidelines, which ensures in vivo antiobiotic sensitivity. The remit is based on organism rather than species which the sampl originated from ,so it is a valid approach to ansure accurate sensitivity tests.

Sensitivity testing requires a standardised approach to plate innocultion and disc strengths used  - the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) guidelines publish a methology to ensure this. The plate requirement, dilution of the culture, the strength of antibiotic disc used, the interpretation of the disc size and the culture conditions are all specified in these guidelines, which ensures in vivo antiobiotic sensitivity. The remit is based on organism rather than species which the sampl originated from ,so it is a valid approach to ansure accurate sensitivity tests.

==Skin Scrapes==

==Skin Scrapes==