[chewbacha]

I’m even less impressed because it looks like for their tests they used a rod and a cocci which are pretty different morphologically. If it could differentiate between group a and b strep or staph id be very impressed.

But also; many times it’s not just the antibiotic resistance but virulence that’s mediated by a plasmid and there are any visual distinctions. The effect would be biochemical in nature so a visual analysis would provide limited benefit.