Agar dilution and broth dilution are the most commonly used techniques to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics and other substances that ...

Swirls of bacteria form on an agar plate. In this webinar, Stefan Radtke will discuss the development of new high-throughput single-cell readouts for precise and comprehensive tracking of gene editing ...

Determination of hemolysis type is a key classification system in medical diagnostics and microbiology, and is especially useful in classifying streptococcal species. Serious infection diseases such ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Finding Pneumo, by Linh Ngo of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (2nd place) No matter how flamboyant your shower curtain mold is, it couldn't have competed with the fungus that won this year's Agar ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

The purpose of this practical is to investigate the effect of antiseptics or antibiotics on bacterial growth using agar plates and measuring zones of inhibition. This allows the selected bacteria to ...