How to Interpret Mannitol Salt Agar Bacterial Growth Medium
Channel: Tami Guy, MS, CPPS
Date: 2012-10-01

Photos and narrator interpretation of Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA) specialized bacterial growth medium. Examples of sterile MSA as well as plates with growth of halophilic mannitol fermenting bacteria (pathogen Staphylococcus aureus) and halophilic non-mannitol fermenting bacteria (normal flora S. epidermidis). *OOPS! Spelling typo found in video, see corrected MSA video at: http://youtu.be/beRgd7wSgfo

Video by Tami (Guy) Port, Chief Executive Nerd at ScienceProfOnline.com. For the lab materials that go with this movie, see the Virtual Microbiology Classroom Bacterial Growth Media and Culture Laboratory Main Page (http://www.scienceprofonline.com/vmc/vmc-lab/vmc-laboratory-media-culture.html) at ScienceProfOnline.com.