fairfolio
Saved Projects

Isolation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus with Zoonotic Potential from Domestic Pets

ISEF · 2018 Microbiology

Quinones, David · Colegio Bilingue Maria Auxiliadora

Overview

Thirty - six strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from the oropharynx mucous of pets. For this purpose, 40 samples were collected throughout oropharyngeal swab in dogs, cats and rodents from the areas of La Chorrera and San Miguelito in Panama. Special culture media such as mannitol salt agar were used for initial identification, Gram staining. Isolates were positive for hemolysis tests on blood agar and coagulase tests for final identification. Finally a subset of 10 isolates taken at random was grown on ChromAgar MRSA medium with high methicillin resistance (9/10). In conclusion the oropharynx of the pets constitutes a reservoir of S. aureus MRSA, which could be zoonotic agents.

Competition history

  • ISEF 2018 Microbiology · Entry MCRO007 Affiliated fair in Panama

Resources

Related projects

Closest projects by meaning, across every fair and year in the corpus.

Browse more like this

Source: Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair

Save projects to your library

Sign in with Google to keep track of projects you find interesting, organized into folders. An account also raises your daily allowance for “Has this been done?”, and lets you create a key for the MCP server with a much higher limit than anonymous use. Browsing stays public.

Continue with Google