Asepsis
This includes medical and laboratory techniques (such as with bacterial cultures). There are two types of asepsis - medical and ... "Medical Asepsis (Clean Technique)" (PDF). Indiana Department of Health. "Microbiology Techniques & Troubleshooting". Science ... The exact modes of infection depend on the types of surgery, but the most common bacteria that are responsible for SSIs are ... While all members of the surgical team should demonstrate good aseptic technique, it is the role of the scrub nurse or surgical ...
Biomolecular engineering
The basics of this technique involve the preparation of a primer that will be a complementary strand to a wild type bacterial ... When the bacterial plasmid is replicated, the mutated strand will be replicated as well. The same technique can be used to ... Although there are three different types of solid state enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, all three types begin with the ... The technique was developed by Kary Mullis in 1983 while working for the Cetus Corporation. Mullis would go on to win the Nobel ...
Genotoxicity
The technique uses many different bacterial strains in order to compare the different changes in the genetic material. The ... One technique entails cytogenetic assays using different mammalian cells. The types of aberrations detected in cells affected ... The benefits of this technique are that it is a fast and simple method and convenient for numerous substances. These techniques ... This technique is advantageous in that it detects low levels of DNA damage, requires only a very small number of cells, is ...
Halobacterium noricense
Sequence Typing is a technique that uses genomic information to establish evolutionary relationships between bacterial taxa. ... "Halobacterium noricense" at the Encyclopedia of Life LPSN Type strain of Halobacterium noricense at BacDive - the Bacterial ... "ATCC medium: 2185 Halobacterium NRC-1 medium". American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). Lim SK, Kim JY, Song HS, Kwon MS, Lee J ... When the samples were compared to the fosmid library, some were over 88% similar to other known halophilic bacterial species. ...
Endospore
Most types of bacteria cannot change to the endospore form. Examples of bacterial species that can form endospores include ... Another staining technique for endospores is the Schaeffer-Fulton stain, which stains endospores green and bacterial bodies red ... While the rest of a bacterial cell may stain, the endospore is left colourless. To combat this, a special stain technique ... The main types within the cell are terminal, subterminal, and centrally placed endospores. Terminal endospores are seen at the ...
Microbial art
The type of medium in the agar plates is also important. Chromagar Candida is a differential medium that is used to identify ... Protist species used include Euglena gracilis (photosynthetic, green) and Physarum polycephalum (yellow-green). A technique ... called "bacteriography" involves selectively killing certain areas of a bacterial culture with radiation, in order to produce ...
Bioclogging
In this situation, bacterial profile modification technique, which injects bacteria into the high permeable zone to promote ... "Effects of bacterial cells and two types of extracellular polymers on bioclogging of sand columns". Journal of Hydrology. 535: ... It is a type of microbial enhanced oil recovery. Biofilm Hydraulic conductivity Landfill liner Microbial enhanced oil recovery ... In extraction of petroleum, a technique of enhanced oil recovery is implemented to increase the amount of oil to be extracted ...
Edward Bach
Their use is based on the variable bowel bacterial flora associated with persons of different homeopathic constitutional types ... In 1930, at the age of 43, he decided to search for a new healing technique. He spent the spring and summer discovering and ... In this period, he developed seven bacterial nosodes known as the seven Bach nosodes. Their use has been mostly confined to ...
Silver nanoparticle
... it has been shown that silver nano particles lower the bacterial count on devices used compared to old techniques. However, the ... Although it varies for every type of cell proposed, as their cell membrane composition varies greatly, It has been seen that in ... This technique is popular due to the ability to add a variety of functionality to the exposed silica surface. A number of ... Bacterial and fungal synthesis of nanoparticles is practical because bacteria and fungi are easy to handle and can be modified ...
Biogenic substance
2003) observed inhibiting bacterial growth with up to 83% of the efficacy of TBT oxide. Current research also aims to produce ... Different system types can be used to yield different biogenic products. In the field of paleochemotaxonomy the presence of ... By pairing these techniques with biochemical engineering design, algae and their biogenic substances can be produced on a large ... They are generally isolated and measured through the use of chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. Additionally, the ...
Mantoux test
The response is a classical example of delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction (DTH), a type IV of hypersensitivities. T cells ... A person who has been exposed to the bacteria is expected to mount an immune response in the skin containing the bacterial ... This intradermal injection is termed the Mantoux technique. ...
Community fingerprinting
discuss several examples of types of studies in which RISA can be used. They cite several studies that have used this technique ... In this study, they were looking at a group of closely related bacterial types, all autotrophic β-proteobacterial ammonia ... Biodiversity, Environmental microbiology, Genetics techniques, Molecular biology techniques). ... The brightness of the fluorescently labeled primers correlates to how prevalent that bacterial type is in the community. The ...
Phage typing
This technique prevents a phenomenon known as "lysis from without", which is bacterial lysis induced by high multiplicity phage ... The bacterial strain is assigned a type based on its lysis pattern. Phage typing was used to trace the source of infectious ... Phages used for phage typing are generally isolated from the native habitats of the host bacterial strain. These may include ... CRAIGIE, JAMES; YEN, CHUN HUI (1938). "The Demonstration of Types of B. Typhosus by Means of Preparations of Type II Vi Phage: ...
Bacterial display
... (or bacteria display or bacterial surface display) is a protein engineering technique used for in vitro ... Vaccine delivery is a very common application of bacterial surface display. There are two types of live bacterial vaccines that ... Bacterial display combined with FACS also has the advantage that it is a real-time technique. Cell display systems were first ... Bacterial display systems were first introduced by Freudl et al. and Charbit et al. in 1986, when they used bacterial surface ...
Indicator bacteria
Bacterial colonies can be counted after 24 to 48 hours depending on the type of bacteria. Counts are reported as colony forming ... units per 100 mL (cfu/100 mL). One technique for detecting indicator organisms is the use of chromogenic compounds, which are ... None of the types of indicator organisms that are currently in use fit all of these criteria perfectly, however, when cost is ... Indicator bacteria are types of bacteria used to detect and estimate the level of fecal contamination of water. They are not ...
Clostridioides difficile infection
... the differing terminology reflects the predominant techniques used for epidemiological typing. This strain is referred to as C ... As a result of suppression of healthy bacteria, via a loss of bacterial food source, prolonged use of an elemental diet ... Taking non-toxic types of C. difficile after an infection has promising results with respect to preventing future infections. ... C. difficile is one such type of bacterium. In addition to proliferating in the bowel, C. difficile also produces toxins. ...
Raman microscope
The technique used is named after C. V. Raman, who discovered the scattering properties in liquids. The Raman microscope begins ... However, the high photon flux can also cause sample degradation, and thus, for each type of sample, the laser wavelength and ... has permitted determination of assimilation rates of 13C and 15N-substrates as well as D2O by individual bacterial cells. Raman ... This technique is being used for the characterization of large scale devices, mapping of different compounds and dynamics study ...
Porter W Anderson Jr.
... a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and epiglottitis. The techniques he and his colleague Ronald Eby invented were later ... microbiologist best known for developing a vaccine that protects children from infections by Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib ... The conjugate vaccine technique Anderson and his colleagues developed led to a Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) vaccine ... "A lucky career in bacterial vaccines." (2012) Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, vol 8, issue 4, pp. 420-422 Clark, Thornton ...
Agar dilution
This technique allows for replicate spots of one bacterial type to be tested or spots of different bacteria so that the MIC of ... Necessary controls include a control plate that does not receive any antibiotics and bacterial spread plates demonstrating that ... The lowest concentration of antibiotics that prevented bacterial growth is considered to be the minimum inhibitory ... the plates are examined to determine if bacterial growth has occurred in the inoculated spots. ...
Starkeya novella
ISBN 978-0-470-75383-5. Type strain of Starkeya novella at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase v t e (Articles with ... 2008). Bioelectrochemistry Fundamentals, Experimental Techniques and Applications. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. ... genome sequence of the facultatively chemolithoautotrophic and methylotrophic alpha Proteobacterium Starkeya novella type ... genome sequence of the facultatively chemolithoautotrophic and methylotrophic alpha Proteobacterium Starkeya novella type ...
Xenorhabdus bovienii
1997). Manual of techniques in insect pathology. San Diego: Academic. ISBN 0-08-053577-1. Type strain of Xenorhabdus bovienii ... the bacterial symbiont of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema weiseri, is a non-virulent strain against lepidopteran ... the bacterial symbiont of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema weiseri, is a non-virulent strain against lepidopteran ... "Comparison of Xenorhabdus bovienii bacterial strain genomes reveals diversity in symbiotic functions". BMC Genomics. 16 (1): ...
Philippe Horvath
... where he worked to develop molecular biology techniques for bacterial strain screening, microbial identification, and typing of ... Horvath explored sections in the bacterial genome with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, both for ... Early work was stimulated by with the aim of improving the durability of bacterial starter cultures to improve the manufacture ... their utility in differentiating between strains, and because of their role in the bacterial immune system. As this prokaryotic ...
Xenorhabdus ehlersii
ISBN 978-1-84593-479-8. {{cite book}}: ,first1= has generic name (help) Type strain of Xenorhabdus ehlersii at BacDive - the ... phylogeny and bacterial symbionts. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2239-6. {{cite book}}: ,last2= has generic name (help) ... Insect pathogens molecular approaches and techniques. Wallingford, UK: CABI. ... Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase v t e (CS1 errors: generic name, Articles with short description, Short description is ...
List of MeSH codes (E05)
... bacterial typing techniques MeSH E05.200.875.150.125.150 - bacteriophage typing MeSH E05.200.875.150.125.765 - ribotyping MeSH ... embryo culture techniques MeSH E05.200.249.484 - organ culture techniques MeSH E05.200.249.617 - tissue culture techniques MeSH ... mycological typing techniques MeSH E05.200.875.837 - serial passage MeSH E05.200.875.950 - viral load MeSH E05.200.875.970 - ... cell culture techniques MeSH E05.200.249.374 - coculture techniques MeSH E05.200.249.437 - diffusion chambers, culture MeSH ...
Protoplast
Among other things, this technique is used to isolate specific cell types (e.g., guard cells from leaves, pericycle cells from ... In the case of Gram-negative bacterial spheroplasts, for example, the peptidoglycan component of the cell wall has been removed ... This technique may be used to generate somatic hybrids in tissue culture. Additionally, protoplasts of plants expressing ... Bacterial morphological plasticity L-form bacteria Spheroplasts Hanstein, J (1880). Das Protoplasma. Heidelberg. Sharp, LW ( ...
Pneumonia
With treatment, most types of bacterial pneumonia will stabilize in 3-6 days. It often takes a few weeks before most symptoms ... among other techniques. Mycoplasma, Legionella, Streptococcus, and Chlamydia can also be detected using PCR techniques on ... Viruses also make the body more susceptible to bacterial infections; in this way, bacterial pneumonia can occur at the same ... as there is no definitive test able to distinguish between bacterial and non-bacterial cause. The overall impression of a ...
Maple syrup
In 2009, researchers at the University of Vermont unveiled a new type of tap that prevents backflow of sap into the tree, ... Improvements in tubing and vacuum pumps, new filtering techniques, "supercharged" preheaters, and better storage containers ... reducing bacterial contamination and preventing the tree from attempting to heal the bore hole. Experiments show that it may be ... but these techniques were not widely used. Heating methods also diversified: modern producers use wood, oil, natural gas, ...
Asymmetric bacterium
This type of asymmetry is usually seen in Bacilli and Clostridia. Reproductive asymmetry is classically linked to bacterial ... this idea has been overturned by novel technology and observation techniques. However, asymmetric bacteria remain difficult to ... In this type of asymmetrical growth, the daughter cell receives most of the new cell wall material. Bacillus subtilis ... Following the "old pole" of the cell wall material allows an observer to create a bacterial lineage. Bacteria exhibit three ...
Human Microbiome Project
However, the microbiome eventually returns to a state of equilibrium, even though the composition of bacterial types has ... By mapping the normal microbial make-up of healthy humans using genome sequencing techniques, the researchers of the HMP have ... Other studies using the HMP data and techniques include role of microbiome in various diseases in the digestive tract, skin, ... The project also financed deep sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA sequences amplified by polymerase chain reaction from human ...
Multilocus sequence typing
... (MLST) is a technique in molecular biology for the typing of multiple loci, using DNA sequences of ... Earlier serological typing approaches had been established for differentiating bacterial isolates, but immunological typing has ... Spratt, Brian G (1999). "Multilocus sequence typing: molecular typing of bacterial pathogens in an era of rapid DNA sequencing ... Until recently, with the application of MLST technique, Campylobacter typing has achieved a great success and added onto the ...
Beaver dam
Cellulose is a type of polysaccharide.) Many bacteria produce cellulase which can split off the glucose and use it for energy. ... Additionally, bacterial populations absorb nitrogen and phosphorus compounds as they pass by in the water stream and keep these ... BDA builders may use construction techniques beyond the beaver's capabilities, such as driving wooden posts into the stream bed ...
Phage display
In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a phage coat protein gene, causing the phage to " ... Phage eluted in the final step can be used to infect a suitable bacterial host, from which the phagemids can be collected and ... "In vitro evolution of a neutralizing human antibody to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 to enhance affinity and broaden ... The technique is also used to determine tumour antigens (for use in diagnosis and therapeutic targeting) and in searching for ...
Neodymium
However, this changes with the type of lighting because of the interaction of the sharp light absorption bands of neodymium ... Examination of electron stains as a substitute for uranyl acetate for the ultrathin sections of bacterial cells. J Electron ... https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38508-0_3 Bray, Charles (2001). Dictionary of glass: materials and techniques. University of ... Neodymium alloys are used to make high-strength neodymium magnets-a type of powerful permanent magnet. These magnets are widely ...
Metabolism
Bacterial metabolic networks are a striking example of bow-tie organization, an architecture able to input a wide range of ... Three types of photosynthesis occur in plants, C3 carbon fixation, C4 carbon fixation and CAM photosynthesis. These differ by ... Using these techniques, a model of human metabolism has now been produced, which will guide future drug discovery and ... Hundreds of separate types of dehydrogenases remove electrons from their substrates and reduce NAD+ into NADH. This reduced ...
Food web
Type of ecosystem Trophic relationships in rivers - Type of aquatic ecosystem with flowing freshwater Nowak, M. E.; Beulig, F ... The technique has been improved through the use of stable isotopes to better trace energy flow through the web. It was once ... "Bacterial biomineralization: new insights from Myxococcus-induced mineral precipitation". Geological Society, London, Special ... "Detritus can be broadly defined as any form of non-living organic matter, including different types of plant tissue (e.g. leaf ...
Childbirth
Each organisation teaches its own curriculum and each emphasises different techniques. The Lamaze technique is one well-known ... Otherwise depending on how far along the pregnancy is, medications may be used to start labour or a type of surgery known as ... Postpartum infections, also historically known as childbed fever and medically as puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections ... Skin-to-skin contact (SSC), sometimes also called kangaroo care, is a technique of newborn care where babies are kept chest-to- ...
2022 monkeypox outbreak
Of the two types in humans, clade II (formerly West African clade) causes a less severe disease than the Central African (Congo ... mostly for pain and bacterial infections that can occur as a result of monkeypox lesions". Studies published a month later, in ... "administered as one percutaneous dose via multiple puncture technique with a bifurcated needle." However, ACAM2000 is not ... basin) type. It may spread from infected animals by handling infected meat or via bites or scratches. Human-to-human ...
Clothes dryer
A new type of dryer in development, these machines are a more advanced version of heat pump dryers. Instead of using hot air to ... Given that this is a relatively simple and cheap technique to materialize, most consumer products showcase the added benefit of ... and bacterial growth inside a home. Indoor venting may also be against local regulations. Gas dryers, unlike electric dryers, ... As a consequence of the increased humidity of the air used to dry the load, this type of dryer requires somewhat more time than ...
Streptomyces bikiniensis
ISBN 978-1-4398-0408-7. Type strain of Streptomyces bikiniensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase v t e ( ... Biotechnology Techniques. 9 (9): 633-636. doi:10.1007/BF00156347. Sholkamy, Essam; Ahmad, Maged; Manal Yaser, Manal; Ali, Ali; ... "Interspecies matings of with mediated by conventional and protoplast fusion techniques". Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 24 ( ...
Racemization
This technique is known as amino acid dating. In 1843, Louis Pasteur discovered optical activity in paratartaric, or racemic, ... However, bacteria produce D-amino acid residues that polymerize into short polypeptides which can be found in bacterial cell ... Enantiomers should also be distinguished from diastereomers which are a type of stereoisomer that have different molecular ... These polypeptides are less digestible by peptidases and are synthesized by bacterial enzymes instead of mRNA translation which ...
Food and biological process engineering
This type of storage manipulates the CO2 and O2 levels within airtight stores of containers. Modified atmosphere (MA) storage ... "Molecular Techniques in Food Biology: Safety, Biotechnology, Authenticity and Traceability". Wiley.com. 2018-03-12. Retrieved ... Refrigeration does slow spoilage in food and reduce the risk of bacterial growth, however, it does not improve the quality of ... Understanding of these processes, their effects, and the microorganisms at play in various food processing techniques is a very ...
Colonial morphology
Bacterial cellular morphologies-the microscopic appearance of bacterial cells Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colony ... In colonial morphology, hemolysis is classified into three types: alpha-, beta-, and gamma-hemolysis. In alpha-hemolysis, the ... 163 and to confirm identification when automated techniques give inconclusive results.: 103-4 Connie R. Mahon; Donald C. Lehman ... In microbiology, colonial morphology refers to the visual appearance of bacterial or fungal colonies on an agar plate. ...
Mitochondrial DNA
Type 2, type 3 and type 5 mentioned in the plant and fungal genomes also exist in some protists, as do two unique genome types ... An IVF technique known as mitochondrial donation or mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) results in offspring containing ... Alverson AJ, Rice DW, Dickinson S, Barry K, Palmer JD (July 2011). "Origins and recombination of the bacterial-sized ... In those species, females have only one type of mtDNA (F), whereas males have F type mtDNA in their somatic cells, but M type ...
Truffle
... s long eluded techniques of domestication, as Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1825) noted: The most learned men have ... Thiophene derivatives appear to be produced by bacterial symbionts living in the truffle body. The most abundant of these, 3- ... Mushroom types, Fungus common names). ... "Soils and Techniques for Cultivating Tuber melanosporum and ...
Oral candidiasis
The pseudomembranous type rarely causes any symptoms apart from possibly some discomfort or bad taste due to the presence of ... Oral rinse technique can distinguish between commensal candidal carriage and candidiasis. If candidal leukoplakia is suspected ... Peleg AY, Hogan DA, Mylonakis E (May 2010). "Medically important bacterial-fungal interactions". Nature Reviews. Microbiology. ... Most types of oral candidiasis are painless, but a burning sensation may occur in some cases. Candidiasis can, therefore, ...
Larvicide
Due to the small amount needed and the fast rate that temephos breaks down in water, this type of larvicide does not pose an ... The biological control agent Bacillus thuringiensis, also known as Bt, is a bacterial disease specific to Lepidopteran ... Larviciding techniques can also include the addition of surface films to standing water to suffocate mosquito larvae, or the ... is an organophosphate which prevents mosquito larvae from developing resistance to bacterial larvicides. ...
Sake
Many types of sake have notes of apple from ethyl caproate, and banana from isoamyl acetate, particularly ginjōshu (吟醸酒). In ... 75% of today's sake is made using this technique. There were a few breweries producing "sake" that contained no rice at all. ... The government started hailing the use of enamel tanks as easy to clean, lasting forever, and being devoid of bacterial ... Koshu (古酒) is 'aged sake'. Most sake does not age well, but this specially made type can age for decades, turning yellow and ...
Deciduous teeth
This technique has limited use when pulp is exposed due to injury but is generally not accepted for managing carious pulp ... A common one used amongst children with caries is a preformed metal crown (PMC). This type of crown is pressed over a decayed ... This oral condition involves bacterial infection which demineralizes and destructs tooth tissues. In primary dentition, ... Pulpotomy is the most frequently used vital pulp therapy technique for deep dental caries in primary teeth. Medicaments used in ...
Biophoton
They are non-thermal in origin, and the emission of biophotons is technically a type of bioluminescence, though bioluminescence ... Iniguez AL, Dong Y, Carter HD, Ahmer BM, Stone JM, Triplett EW (February 2005). "Regulation of enteric endophytic bacterial ... August 2004). "Biophoton detection as a novel technique for cancer imaging". Cancer Science. 95 (8): 656-61. doi:10.1111/j.1349 ...
Lyme disease
The extent to which a tick can feed, reproduce, and spread will depend on the type and availability of its hosts. Whether it ... Successful infection of the mammalian host depends on bacterial expression of OspC. Tick bites often go unnoticed because of ... OspA antigens, shed by live Borrelia bacteria into urine, are a promising technique being studied. The use of nanotrap ... In the United States ticks of concern are usually of the Ixodes scapularis type and must be attached for at least 36 hours ...
Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency
... such as the application of a bacterial toxin, submersion in a weak acid, or physical trauma. The technique gained prominence in ... She repeated the experiment with other cell types including brain, skin, and muscle cells with the same result. Initially ... After modifying the technique, Obokata was able to show that white blood cells from newborn mice could be transformed into ... The technique for producing STAP cells was subsequently studied by Obokata at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), while she ...
Antimicrobial
Bacterial spores on the other hand cannot be killed by iodine, but they can be inhibited by iodophors. The growth of ... There are two types of radiations that are used to inhibit the growth of microorganisms - ionizing and non-ionizing radiations ... The implementation of these antiseptic techniques drastically reduced the number of infections and subsequent deaths associated ... Bacterial endospores can be killed using this method. Both dry and moist heat are effective in eliminating microbial life. For ...
Effects of cannabis
Some users may store marijuana in an airtight bag or jar in a refrigerator to prevent fungal and bacterial growth. The fungi ... There are at least two types of cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2). Most cannabinoids are lipophilic (fat soluble) compounds ... Some varieties, having undergone careful selection and growing techniques, can yield as much as 34% THC. Another psychoactive ...
Archaeobiology
For example, "In the Dominican amber, a mosquito was found with several types of parasitic fungi growing on its outside cuticle ... Powell, Devin (2 January 2013). "Bacterial traces from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest fossils; experts say". The Washington ... Because both are microorganisms, both fall under the study of microbiology and special techniques are required for ...
Bioluminescence
Hosts obtain these bacterial symbionts either from the environment, spawning, or the luminous bacterium is evolving with their ... However, it is important to keep in mind that different types of microbial populations are determined through different sets of ... Luminescence Imaging of Cancer Cells". Metal Ions in Bio-Imaging Techniques. Springer. pp. 371-401. doi:10.1515/9783110685701- ... Most luminous bacterial inhabit the marine sea, with Photobacterium and Vibrio genera dominating the marine environment. In the ...
Cellulose
Bacterial cellulose is produced using the same family of proteins, although the gene is called BcsA for "bacterial cellulose ... Several types of cellulose are known. These forms are distinguished according to the location of hydrogen bonds between and ... Live fluorescence microscopy techniques are promising in investigation of the role of cellulose in growing plant cells. ... The bacterial mass is later digested by the ruminant in its digestive system (stomach and small intestine). Horses use ...
Enzyme inhibitor
381-382 Although it is possible for mixed-type inhibitors to bind in the active site, this type of inhibition generally results ... In a complementary technique, peptide mass fingerprinting involves digestion of the native and modified protein with a protease ... Buynak JD (September 2007). "Cutting and stitching: the cross-linking of peptidoglycan in the assembly of the bacterial cell ... These three types of inhibition result respectively from the inhibitor binding only to the enzyme E in the absence of substrate ...
Hemolysis
Experience and proper technique are key for any phlebotomist, nurse or doctor to prevent hemolysis. In vitro hemolysis during ... Typically, the spleen destroys mildly abnormal red blood cells or those coated with IgG-type antibodies, while severely ... or by bacterial action in cultured blood specimens. Most causes of in vitro hemolysis are related to specimen collection. ... In vitro hemolysis can be caused by improper technique during collection of blood specimens, by the effects of mechanical ...
Petri dish
A bacterial culture was spread on the glass slide, then placed in the moist chamber with a small wet paper. Bacterial growth ... It is the most common type of culture plate. The Petri dish is one of the most common items in biology laboratories and has ... " ("A minor modification of the plating technique of Koch"). Although it could have been named "Koch dish," the final method ... He described a new bacterial culture method that used a glass slide with agar and a container (basically a Petri dish, a ...