Does Dog Saliva Kill Bacteria. It can be made a generalisation that dog saliva can kill bacteria, and that dog saliva can be used as a. Methods/materials petri dishes, agar, latex gloves, sterile cotton swabs, sterile.
Open a third petri dish. We do not know very much about all of the bacteria that dogs carry in their saliva, but we do know that the oral microbiome (bacterial environment) differs greatly between dogs and humans. One study found that only 16.4% of identified microbes are shared between humans and dogs.