Samples of the medium are taken at day 3, 7, and 14 and sampled on agar plates and incubated—the minimum time to determine a contamination is 28 days. This drawn-out detection process causes ...

Many hospital laboratories have not yet accepted the pour-plate colony count or ... incorporation of nutrient agar as a monitor of the level of contamination in the specimen.

In the operating room (OR), key contributors to microbial contamination include inadequate microbial sterilization, airflow ...

Contamination, says Müller-Scholz, “can be undetected for quite a while”. Traditional tests for mycoplasmas involve growing cultures on agar plates, or using fluorescence microscopy to check ...

"You can get contamination from animal production facilities ... coli bacteria grown on an agar plate. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control via Reuters) It's a question being asked by many scientists. " ...