The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas ... whose growth is selected against by this high salt agar (plate on the right in the picture below). The ...

Staphylococcus aureus is capable of fermenting mannitol (left ... The first selective ingredient in this agar is bile, which inhibits the growth of Gram-positives other than enterococci and some ...

while conducting her own research on Staphylococcus aureus physiology. But when the students go home, Grosser gets out her agar plates and brightly-colored bacteria collection to make literature-based ...