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Streak Plate Technique for Isolating Bacteria - P2
Legionella sp. colonies cultivated on an agar plate and illuminated with ultraviolet light.
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Isolation Streak Plate Technique
When attempting to isolate a specific type of bacteria from a clinical sample, this streak plate technique will need be repeated, possibly several times, in order to obtain a pure sample. 

  • Again sterilize loop in flame of Bunsen burner or hub of microincinerator, and allow loop to cool.
  • Place loop in next quadrant of Petri dish, adjacent to quadrant #3. Gently drag the loop into quadrant #3 a few times, to obtain just a bit of bacteria from that sample, then spread that material over quadrant #4, in a back-and-forth "tornado" pattern.
  • Make sure that the quadrant #4 streak does not touch the quadrant #1 streak.
  • Incubate plate at 37 degrees C for at least 24 hours.
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  • Bauman, R. (2004) Microbiology. Pearson Benjamin Cummings.

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