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Swabbing the surface of your skin anywhere on your body and culturing that sample in the lab is likely to result in the growth of millions of bacterial cells on the culture plate, even if you practice good hygiene.

A. True.
B. False.

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Answer:

A. True

Explanation:

Surface of the skin contain hundreds of normal flora containing:

1) Staphylococcus aureus

2) Staphylococcus epidermidis

3) Corynebacterium (diphtheroids)

4) Streptococci

5) Pseudomonas aeruginosa

6) Propionibacterium

7)Candida albicans.

So swabbing the surface of the skin anywhere in the body, or culturing the sample in the lab is likely to result in growth of millions of bacterial cells on the culture plate even if we practice good hygiene because of the presence of numerous microbes on the skin being the normal flora.

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