Introduction to Clinical Mycology

Culture Examination

February 2012

This is the example of taking a tray out at a time. You can pick the cultures up to look at them on the front side, the reverse side. You can look at the morphology and then if you have to work with them, you work with them inside of a biological safety cabinet.

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