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Microbes and Health
   
Effect of Handwashing on Fingerprint Microbe Counts ... from the AE Collection.
Pure cultures from yogurt

Yogurt bacteria.

Yogurt is a simple system for studying ecology!

Effectiveness of Household Disinfectants on Bacteria (or even safer yogurt)
 

Kits for this experiment are popular in schools and can be constructed from materials at home and in the science classroom. Clinicians in major medical centers also use kits to study antibiotic resistant superbugs.

 

Handwashing and Food Service Workers

Challenge your students with this original rsearch report on handwashing practices of food service workers. Rutgers University in New Jersey is a major inductrial microbiology research center.
Outbreaks of Food-borne Illness  
   
Speakers Angela Thrasher, MPH Teens and AIDS, UNC Graduate Program in Public Health
Ralph Cordell, PhD CDC-DASH CDC: An Ounce of Prevention
  Bruce Fuchs, PhD NIH Office of Science Education: Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (free curriculum guides with CD-ROM)
     

 

 

 

 

 
Interfacing in Biology
To Show What You Know
How does Sound/Music/Startling Affect Body Temperature?
 
 
Menu of Respiration and Heart Rate Studies during Exercise