This bacteria is contagious! Especially for grapplers! 👀🥋🤼‍♂️ This petri dish shows an organism that causes staph infections. When your doctor tells you that you have a staph infection, this is what we’re actually seeing and working with in the laboratory. The organism growing here is Staphylococcus aureus, a beta-hemolytic, Gram positive cocci that grows in clusters and is commonly found on the skin, but can cause serious disease once it enters the body. Staph aureus is associated with skin