S/No. Culture Collection Full Name Country/Region 1 AHU AHU Culture Collection Japan 2 ATCC American Type Culture Collection U.S.A. 3 BCRC Bioresource Collection and Research […]
Key facts Clostridium botulinum is a bacterium that produces dangerous toxins (botulinum toxins) under low-oxygen conditions. Botulinum toxins are one of the most lethal substances […]
Key facts about food safety Access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Unsafe food […]
A colony forming unit (CFU) is defined as a unit that is commonly used in microbiology to determine or estimate the actual concentration of bacteria or […]
Viruses are non-cellular microorganisms that consist of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) and proteins. They can only replicate within aliving cell, including cells of animals, […]
Actinomycetes are fungi-like bacteria. They are widespread in nature, and can be found in the soil, water and in compost. Actinomycetes form branching hyphae or […]
Bacteria are prokaryotic cells. They are single celled microorganisms that are ubiquitous in nature. Morphologically, bacteria measure between 0.5 to 10 µm in diameter. Bacteria […]
Yeasts are the single celled growth forms of most fungi. Yeasts are unicellular fungi. They are heterotrophic organisms that require organic carbon as there common […]
Moulds are filamentous fungi. They are known as filamentous fungi because they have hyphae which are long branching filaments of fungi. Moulds are multicellular fungi […]
Industrial microbiology includes the use of microorganisms to manufacture food, drugs and other industrial products of economic importance in large quantities. The microorganisms used in […]
BIOSURFACTANTS The surface active agents synthesized by microbes are mainly composed of glycolipids, peptides, lipoproteins, fatty acids, glycopeptides and phospholipids. Several factors affect the production […]
A surfactant is a chemical substance or an organic compound that lowers the surface tension between two liquids. They can also be applied to lower […]