We learned that a large portion of your microbial flora on your skin are the gra

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We learned that a large portion of your microbial flora on your skin are the gram-positive rods Propionibacteriaceae, bu exclusively gram positive cocci. Tell me why this might happen. What are the potential flaws of our sampling for bacteria? What could we do differently to get a more accurate picture of which microbes are living on us? (I'm giving you half of a page for this answer, so make it multi-faceted and do a little research) 2. t when we looked at skin cultures from General Microbiology, we saw almost

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pH mutualistic flora like staphylococcus epidermidis,micrococci are mostly present in the microbial flora which are non pathogenic.These are the main species in the sebacious areas of the body.Staphylococci dominates in these areas especially in fingers as we touch various objects ,which results in staphylococcus aureus sps.Thsi organism creates body odour and main reason for sweat,so while processing the sample culturing chancse of getting contamination might occur.

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