A van Gogh on a petri dish

A fantastic piece of "Petri dish art," created by Amy B. of the Provincial Laboratory of Public Health in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The van Gogh picture was created on Uriselect chromogenic agar which is a white colour. Different bacteria show up as different colours so the following were used:

• Pink=E. coli

• Dark blue= Enterococcus

• Light blue= Klebsiella pneumoniae

• Red= Serratia marcescens (this is actually its naturally occurring ruby pigment, not from the chromogenic agar)

• White= Candida albicans

• Yellow= Micrococcus luteus (again, this was it's naturally occurring pigment not from the chromogenic agar)

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Source:  All Creatures Great AND Small: Preaching Microbial Supremacy!

Image credits: Amy B