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Introduction of Blood Agar Blood agar is an enriched medium for the cultivation of bacteria. Fastidious organisms, such as streptococci, do not grow well on ordinary growth media. It is a type of growth medium i.e. trypticase soy agar enriched with 5% sheep blood or blood agar base with 5-10 % sterile …
Introduction of Gram-Positive Bacteria Identification Identification of Gram-positive bacteria is a little bit harder than Gram-negative bacteria since the most common bacterial etiological agents are Gram-negative bacteria and the vendors or suppliers are directly involved in supplying common tests reagents and test kit accessories. Due …
Introduction Methylene Blue Stain, also known as methylene blue aqueous is an ordinary stain. It is used for capsule stain as well as simple staining for a rapid and easy way to determine cell shape, size, and arrangements of bacteria. It is also made easier to …
Ziehl -Neelsen Stain Ziehl–Neelsen stain is a type of acid-fast stain and it is named after the surnames of two German doctors who modified the stain. One is the bacteriologist Franz Ziehl (1859–1926) and other is the pathologist Friedrich Neelsen (1854–1898). It was initially introduced …
Introduction of Gram Stain Gram stain is the most commonly used routine stain in microbiology for the identification of microbes and also to know the evidence of etiological agents in clinical specimens. Gram staining is a differential stain and thus it applies to differentiate Gram-positive …
Introduction The name ‘ Atlas of Parasites’ is given even due to the vast spectrum of Parasitology but puny collection and another thing are that only an epic center collection of author authentical performance. So, please if you have benefited from this atlas, let others …
Introduction Courses offered in Medical Laboratory Technology are Medical Laboratory Assistant (LA), Certificate in Medical Laboratory Technology (CMLT), Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology (B.Sc. MLT), and Master of Science in Medical Lab Technology (M.Sc. MLT) but this course has further specialized into other …
Introduction of Colony Morphology Colony morphology of bacteria is the most common diagnostic method in bacteriology for the isolation and identification of bacteria on the basis of phenotypic characteristics on solid medium for the color, shape, surfaces, size, elevation, edges, opacity, and consistency. Common Colony …