by Kali Sorum | Feb 15, 2018 | Clinical, Food, Molecular, Pharmaceutical, Quizzes, Water
Recalling and pronouncing peculiar microorganism names is a skill every microbiologist has mastered. However, the intricate rules for writing about microorganisms may leave even experienced microbiologists second-guessing how to annotate or spell a strain name. Our...
by Laurie Kundrat | Jan 25, 2018 | Clinical, Food, Pharmaceutical, Water
Are you certain the reference stock cultures you use for quality control are identical to the reference cultures you originally purchased? A study performed by Cross, Russel and Desai examined working cultures from eight accredited microbial testing...
by microbiologics | Dec 28, 2017 | Clinical, Food, Pharmaceutical
To say our writers were busy in 2017 is an understatement. We shared best practices for growth promotion testing on selective media, asked for your opinion on B. cepacia testing, and reminded you why microbiologists are the coolest people in the lab. Stanley...
by Stanley Staphylococcus | Dec 21, 2017 | Pharmaceutical
Dear Stanley, We recently purchased your KWIK-STIK™ product to perform quality control on new lots of ETEST® strips. Do you have any tips for setting up and reading an ETEST®? Mike from Philadelphia, PA Dear Mike, KWIK-STIK is the perfect product for performing QC on...
by Laurie Kundrat | Dec 14, 2017 | Pharmaceutical
The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) created quite the challenge when it designed the growth promotion test (GPT) for selective media. Laboratories not only need to test new batches of media with less than 100 colony-forming units (CFU), the colonies must also grow on agars...
by Karla Fjeld | Nov 9, 2017 | Clinical, Food, Pharmaceutical, Water
Photo: 1918 flu ward at Camp Funston, Kansas (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Microorganisms triggered many events that drastically altered human history. The most notorious microbes caused mass death and destruction, but they also inspired modern medical advances often...
