Agar Art with Living Microbes: Introduction, Requirements, Making Procedure, Application, and Keynotes

Agar Art with Living Microbes: Introduction, Requirements, Making Procedure, Application, and Keynotes

Introduction of Agar Art with Living Microbes Agar art or microbial art or agar art with living microbes and germ art are the synonyms in which artwork is created by culturing microbes in certain patterns. The microorganisms used can be bacteria, yeast fungi, or protists …

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Best Websites Links to Fully Funded Ph.D. Positions: Introduction, and List of Links

Best Websites Links to Fully Fundded PhD Positions: Introduction, and List of Links

Introduction of Fully Funded Ph.D. Websites It is a puny collection of websites for fully-funded Ph.D. and the websites are genuine. List of Fully Funded Website Links

Giemsa stain: Introduction, Principle, Reagent Preparation, Staining Procedure, Result Interpretation, Uses, and Keynotes

Leishmania donovani (LD bodies) amastigotes in Giemsa stained smear of bone marrow of a Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or kala-azar patient

Introduction of Giemsa Stain Giemsa stain is a type Romanowsky stain that stains nuclei and cells. It was initially designed for the detection of malarial parasites in blood smears, but it is also used in histology for routine examination of blood smears. This technique uses for …

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Bacteria and Virus: Introduction, Differences, and Keynotes

Staphylococcus aureus growth on blood agar of clinical sample, pus

Introduction of Bacteria and Virus Bacteria are member of a large group of living unicellular microbes having size of cocci 0.5-1.0 µm while bacilli 1-10 µm×3-10µm which have cell walls but lacking an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease like pneumonia, tuberculosis, food …

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VTM: Introduction, Composition, Preparation, Uses, and Keynotes

VTM -Introduction, Composition, Preparation, Uses, and Keynotes

Introduction of VTM VTM stands for viral transport medium. It is the medium for the storage and transportation of viruses. It does not only preserve viral infectivity within the specimen but also prevents the specimen from drying as well as prevents the growth of other …

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Virus Replication: Introduction, and Steps of Replication with Short Description

Introduction of Virus Replication Virus replication is s a complex process and totally depends on the host cell due to the lack of an enzyme system. Single replication of virus completes in 15-30 hours. Steps in Virus Replications Virus replication steps are as follows- Adsorption …

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DNA Viruses: Introduction, Family, Common Names, Virion, Capsid Symmetry, Nucleic Acid Type, Grouping, and Keynotes

Virus nucleic acid Extraction setup

Introduction of DNA Viruses The virus is an obligate intracellular infectious agent and on the basis of nucleic acid, it is of two types-DNA viruses and RNA viruses. DNA viruses have DNA genomes. They are replicated by either host or virally encoded DNA polymerases.Some clinically …

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Parasites and Their Infective Stages, Habitat, and Causing Diseases List

Parasites and Their Infective Stages, Habitat, and Causing Diseases List

Parasites and their infective stages, habitat, and causing diseases list is given as follows- S.No. Name of Parasites Infective stage Habitat Disease 1 Entamoeba histolytica Quadrinucleate cyst Large intestine Dysentery 2 Giardia lamblia Cyst Small intestine Diarrhea 3 a.Plasmodium vivexb.Plasmodium falciparumc.Plasmodium malariaed.Plasmodium ovale Sporozoa RBCs …

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