The New Mexico Department of Health Scientific Laboratories (NMDOHSL) were at the helm in early October when it came to figuring out if a national E. coli outbreak was festering in our state.

considerable difficulties were encountered by repeated contamination of the Petri dishes used for spore counts by spreaders such as Bacillus dendroides. Fig. 1 shows an example of the type of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Petri Dish Picasso is an organization bringing this little-known art to the masses. The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate ...