Thayer–Martin agar is a Mueller–Hinton agar with 5% chocolate sheep blood and antibiotics. It is used for culturing and primarily isolating pathogenic Neisseria bacteria, including Neisseria ...

Having spent considerable time on preparation of ‘bottom’ agar plates for the agar layer assay by the plaque count method 1,2 and for high-titre bacterio-phage stock preparation on a large ...

studying liquid culture instead of colony counting makes data available one to two days sooner, data is recorded dynamically and automatically rather than by plate counting, and it is less expensive ...

Blood agar plates, cystine tryptone agar, and BHI broth were incubated at 37 ... medical attention has been thought to affect the recovery of organisms in culture. 4 It is possible culture positivity ...

On the basis of colonial morphology on fresh beef-heart infusion agar containing ... from cultures of cardiac blood, lung and spleen of the 2 infants who died after receiving antibiotic therapy.

This work describes a valuable method, SICKO, for real-time longitudinal quantification of bacterial colonization in the gut of individual C. elegans. The authors present convincing evidence to ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) -; tiny codes ...

All chemicals were used as received without further purification. HAuCl 4 (100 mM, 10 µl) was vigorously stirred with lysozyme/ovalbumin (10 mM, 20 µl) in deionized water (0.96 ml) for 5 min ...

A new study says that residential nursing homes for the elderly are breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, due to overprescription of antibiotics. According to a report published in ...

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and antibiotic resistance patterns of Campylobacter jejuni and Escherichia coli among various farmed avian species. A total of 5 avian species from ...

and skin cultures on those with skin lesions. Swabs were streaked on trypticase soy agar with 5 per cent horse blood added and were incubated at 37°C. and read for potentially pathogenic organisms.