EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods and potentially ...

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 ...

Having spent considerable time on preparation of ‘bottom’ agar plates for the agar layer assay by the plaque count method 1,2 and for high-titre bacterio-phage stock preparation on a large ...

Colonies develop sub-surface. 3. Streak plate – the original culture is directly diluted across an agar surface using an inoculating loop. This is a simple & rapid method. All of these methods dilute ...

Pour the sterile agar plates and allow to set fully. Reason - this provides the selected bacterium with all the nutrients needed to grow. Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to ...

Spirit blue agar contains an emulsion of olive oil and spirit blue dye. Bacteria that produce lipase will hydrolyze the olive oil and produce a halo around the bacterial growth. The Gram-positive rod, ...

The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...