Nosocomial Infections and Their Common Causative Agents: Introduction, Types, List of Microbial Agents, and Keynotes

Acinetobacter baumannii Complex-the most common bacterial etiological agent of Nosocomial Infections

Introduction of Nosocomial Infections Nosocomial infections are also called hospital-acquired infections (HAI) that occur during hospital stay and microbes are the causative agent of such infections. Common Nosocomial Infections The most commonly occurring nosocomial infections are as follows- Microbial Etiological Agents of Common Nosocomial Infections …

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SARS‑CoV‑2 RNA Extraction using Biocomma Kit: Introduction, Reagent Preparation, Extraction Requirements, Procedure, and Keynotes

SARS‑CoV‑2 RNA Extraction using Biocomma Kit: Introduction, Reagent preparation, Extraction requirements, Procedure and Keynotes

Introduction of SARS‑CoV‑2 RNA Extraction using Biocomma Kit Biocomma nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) extraction kit is a Chinese product that is useful for RNA extraction systems for COVID-19 detection. It is applied for manual extraction and it is completed in four steps- A kit (for 50 …

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Dengue Rapid Test for IgG and IgM Detection: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation, and Limitations

Dengue Rapid Test for IgG and IgM Detection: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result Interpretation and Limitations

Introduction of Dengue IgG and IgM Rapid Test Dengue rapid test (RDT) uses for the detection of immunoglobulin G(IgG) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) where IgM is responsible for the past while IgG is for present infection as shown above picture. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral …

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Indole test: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation, and Keynotes

Indole test: Introduction, Principle, Test Requirements, Procedure, Result -Interpretation, and Keynotes

Indole Production test This indole test is useful to identify the bacteria on the basis of indole production. The list of indole-positive organisms is- Principle of Indole test The ability of an organism to split Indole from the amino acid tryptophan is due to the presence of …

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Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) Medium: Introduction, Principle, Composition, Preparation, Test Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses and Keynotes

Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) Medium Showing Saccharolytic anaerobes(red) and Proteolytic anaerobe (black)

Introduction of Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) Medium Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) Medium is the recommended medium for the cultivation of anaerobic as well as aerobic bacteria. It is especially for pathogenic Clostridium species from clinical, food, and water samples. It can also be used as a maintenance medium …

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Hot air oven: Introduction, Principle, Structure, Handling Procedure, Sterilization control, Uses, Advantages, and Disadvantage

Structure of Hot Air Oven and Functions

Introduction of Hot air oven A hot air oven is the most common method of sterilization in the laboratory working on dry heat. Sterilization is the process of removing or destroying all microorganisms including viruses, bacteria, and their spores from the article or surface without …

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Autoclave: Introduction, Fundamental Structures, Principle, Types, Sterilization Control, Working Mechanisms, Uses, and Precautions

Autoclave: Introduction, Fundamental structures, Principle, Types, Sterilization Control, Working Mechanisms, Uses, and Precautions

Introduction of Autoclave An autoclave is the most common method of sterilization in the laboratory working on moist heat. Sterilization is the process of removing or destroying all microorganisms including viruses, bacteria, and their spores from the article or surface without destroying its quality and …

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Incubator: Introduction, Principle, Handling Procedure, Types, Uses, and Keynotes

Blood agar and chocolate agar incubated CO2 Incubator

Introduction of Incubator The incubator is an electrical device in which the incubation process is performed which conditions an enclosure to a predetermined temperature since it provides and maintains all artificial optimal conditions for the growth of microbial culture as well as cell and tissue …

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