Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Bacillus spores


This Bacillus spp. culture had me SO EXCITED because its difficult to find such clearly defined spores when you're not performing a spore specific stain. See them?

I was running around the lab showing everyone because I've looked at dozens of Bacillus cultures this week and had the hardest time finding at least one spore, this was like Christmas!

2 comments:

  1. That's very cool! So you didn't do a spore stain on these at all?

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  2. Nope, this was just a simple gram stain which is why it's so hard to see them clearly.

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