World Health Organization (WHO) published its first-ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health....
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Pneumococcal pneumonia has a mortality rate of > 30%, depending on bacteremia, age, and...
Rapid diagnostic tests or RDTs for malaria are a way to test whether a person with malaria-like symptoms has malaria. Malaria parasites produce proteins called antigens. RDTs detect these malarial...
Carbohydrate Fermentation Test: Uses, Principle, Procedure, Results
The carbohydrate fermentation test is used to determine whether or not bacteria can ferment a specific carbohydrate. Carbohydrate fermentation patterns are useful in differentiating among...
Robertson’s Cooked Meat (RCM) medium is used to cultivate aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic microorganisms, especially Clostridium species. It is also known as cooked meat broth (CMB)...
Phenylalanine deaminase test also known as phenylpyruvic acid (PPA) test is used to test the ability of an organism to produce enzyme deaminase. This enzyme removes the amine group from the amino...