Human pathogens of one species can compromise very diverse organisms, typing is a tool to identify those organisms up to their strain level. Typing bacteria is an important part of epidemiological...
Year: 2020
Bacteriophages, also known as phages, are viruses that attack bacteria. Depending on the method of replication phages can be broadly classified as virulent phages (replicate via lytic pathway) and...
Starch hydrolysis test is used to determine if the organism is capable of breaking down starch into maltose through the activity of the extra-cellular α-amylase enzyme. Starch, the most important...
Anaerobic infections range from local abscesses to life-threatening infections. In most cases, our own normal flora (i.e., endogenous origin) are involved, but in some cases, exogenous sources play a...
Serotypes are groups within a single species of microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, which share distinctive surface structures. For example, all Salmonella bacteria look alike under a...
Gram-positive bacteria retain the primary stain (crystal violet) color in the Gram staining procedure and appear purple under a light microscope. These bacteria have a cell wall containing a thick...