Aeromonas Bacteria
Aeromonas is gram negative rods, facultative anaerobic seen in soil and fresh and brackish water and it causes infections in both Human and Animals mostly fishes
The most important ...
Candida Albicans Chromogenic Culture Media
For selective isolation of yeasts and direct identification of Candida albicans
Candida albicans colonies are coloured blue by the specific hydrolysis of a hexosaminidase chromogenic ...
Ecoli Live Dead Staining with DNA dyes
old E.coli culture stained with DNA dyes Propidium Iodine which is not membrane permeable (stains dead/broken cells) and Syto9 which is membrane permeable and will thus stain all ...
Thiosulphate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose Agar ( TCBS agar)
Thiosulphate Citrate Bile Salts Sucrose AgarTCBS agar is a selective as well as differential culture medium used for selective isolation of Vibrio spp from a variety of clinical and ...
The Co-operation between Fungi and bacteria
It makes sense that two organisms in the same niche should compete for space and resources. Far more interesting is the fact that sometimes fungi and bacteria will work together in ...
Helicobacter pylori
Helicobacter pylori
Helicobacter pylori previously named Campylobacter pyloridis, is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium found in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Barry ...
Deoxycholate Agar (DOC)
Deoxycholate Agar (DOC):
To isolate and differentiate between various members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.
DOC contains sodium deoxycholate and citrate which work to inhibit the ...
Endo agar
Endo agar (also called Endo’s medium) is a microbiological growth medium with a faint pink colour.
Purpose :
Endo agar is used to detect fecal contamination in water and dairy ...
Streak Plate Methods of Isolation
Purpose:
The identification process of an unknown microbe relies on obtaining a pure culture of that organism.
The streak plate method produces individual colonies on an agar plate. ...
Hektoen Enteric agar
Hektoen Enteric (HE) Agar :
Is a selective and differential agar.
primarily used to recover Salmonellaa and Shigella from patient specimens although many other species may grow ...
Klebsiella pneumoniae on Cystine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient Agar (C.L.E.D Agar)
Klebsiella pneumoniae on Cystine Lactose Electrolyte Deficient Agar (C.L.E.D Agar):
Klebsiella colonies appear Large, yellow or yellowish-white.
Highly mucoid and elevated.
Bromothymol ...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa on blood agar
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an increasingly prevalent opportunistic human pathogen, is the most common Gram-negative bacterium found in nosocomial, or hospital-acquired infections. This ...
