For containers, you can use foil muffin tins, clear plastic cups covered with plastic baggies, clear Tupperware with lids, or real petri dishes. We’re going to use clear deli containers, so that we can recycle while we learn. (Containers must be heat-resistant enough to pour warm agar in...
Mueller Hinton agar (for bacteria) and Sabouraud dextrose agar (for fungi) were sterilized by autoclaving at 121 °C for 15 min, cooled, poured into Petri dishes and inoculated with the selected isolates by striking the swab over the surface of the medium in three directions to confirm a ...