Figure 2
Experimental setup. Experimental design was based off of detecting two species of pathogenic bacteria from three surfaces. Lysogeny broth - Miller (LB-Miller) was used a control to directly compare to inoculations of bacteria in the same media. E. coli, S. aureus, and the sterile LB control were individually inoculated on each of three surfaces, LB agar plates, porcine epidermis, and human cadaveric epidermis. While the schematic representations shows that all samples had only the bacteria added via inoculation on them, porcine epidermis and human epidermis both have natural, commensal bacteria on their surfaces, but LB agar is sterile and should contain no additional bacteria on the surface.
