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Posts by Nisha Rijal

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Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA): Principle, Composition, Colony Characteristics

Potato dextrose agar (PDA) is a general-purpose basal medium for identifying, cultivating and enumerating yeast and molds in foods and dairy products. It may also be used to cultivate yeasts and...

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Baird-Parker Agar: Preparation, Composition, and Uses

Baird-Parker Agar was developed by Baird Parker in 1962 and is a modification of the Tellurite-glycine formulation of Zebovitz et al. It is a moderately selective medium for the isolation and...

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Cetrimide Agar: Composition, Preparation, Uses

Cetrimide agar also known as pseudosel agar is used for the selective isolation and presumptive identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The medium was first developed by Lowburry. It is a...

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XLD Agar: Composition, Principle, Results, and Uses

Xylose lysine deoxycholate (XLD) agar is a selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation, and differentiation of gram-negative enteric microorganisms. This media primarily isolates...

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Transport Media Used in Microbiology Lab

Transport media are solutions of buffers with carbohydrates, peptones, and other nutrients (excluding growth factors) designed to preserve the viability of bacteria during transport without allowing...

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I am working as Microbiologist in National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), government national reference laboratory under the Department of health services (DoHS), Nepal. Key areas of my work lies in Bacteriology, especially in Antimicrobial resistance.

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