Crowdsourced Data Indicate Widespread Multidrug Resistance in Skin Flora of Healthy Young Adults
In a laboratory exercise for undergraduate biology majors, students plated bacteria from swabs of their facial skin under conditions that selected for coagulase-negative Staphylococcus; added disks containing the antibiotics penicillin, oxacillin, tetracycline, and erythromycin; and measured zones o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1008 |