• Question: what does a micro biologist do

    Asked by Aiden773 to Thomas, Sanjib, Donna, Avril, Abid on 15 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by baileyyyyyyyy, mais.
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      Donna Johnson answered on 15 Jun 2017:

      We work with micro-organisms, usually bacteria, but fungi and viruses too sometimes. There are lots of different things that individual microbiologists do though, depending on where they work. Diagnosing diseases in the NHS or doing research for example.

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      Avril Tucker answered on 15 Jun 2017:

      Microbiologist are bacteria experts! They can tell me which bacteria are causing an infection and, after they do tests on it, they tell me which antibiotics will kill it and which are resistant. They are super useful, clever people!

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