What kind of contamination could this be?

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Shalini Suresh

Hi Devan,

from the picture it looks like bacillus contamination, rod shaped bacterium in chains could be diplobacilli or streptobacilli..observe at a higher magnification, stain them with Gram stain. these bacilli are gram positive

so u can easily distinguish if it is bacillus