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Does S. Epidermis grow on normal LB agar plates? If not, what common type of solid medium would you recommend? Thank you.

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S. epidermidis will likely grow on LB agar plates (for some possible procedures relating to growth of S. epidermidis using LB agar plates, see https://www.fairfield.edu/media/fairfie ... 1_2013.pdf and https://academic.oup.com/jac/article-pd ... dkg331.pdf). You could also use mannitol salt agar, as it is selective for the staphylococcus species, as well as trypticase soy agar, because it accommodates facultative anaerobes like S. epidermidis.

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