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 […]
Many techniques exist for the measurement of microbial growth in terms of assessing microbial cell numbers and microbial cell mass. These methods as stipulated in […]
Microbial cells can exhibit different growth patterns depending on the availability of growth nutrients in their immediate environment. In batch culture for example, microbial cells […]
Growthis simply defined as an irreversible increase in the size of an organism. It is one of the characteristics of living organisms. In microbiological terms, […]
Key facts about Buruli ulcer Buruli ulcer is a chronic debilitating disease caused by an environmental Mycobacterium ulcerans. It often affects the skin and sometimes […]
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 […]
Cell density meter is an instrument that is used for measuring of the density of (microbial) cells in suspension. The cell density meter is a […]
Glass Plating Beads are reusable beads which helps to spread suspensions of microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) in a culture plate even much more than a […]
Typical sites where biofilms can form on the human body include the teeth (where biofilms form dental plaque that leads to tooth decay), contact lenses […]
Quorum sensing (QS) is defined as the cell-to-cell interaction (communication) between one bacterium and another, and which allows them to share genetic information through the […]
Mycoplasmas or mollicutes are wall-less bacteria.They are a group of bacteria that do not have a cell wall. Wall-less bacteria are pleomorphic, and they exist […]
Actinomycete comprises a group of Gram-positive, slow-growing, pleomorphic and rod-like anaerobic bacteria that form spores and mycelium. Mycelium is the branching filaments or hyphae of […]