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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To test BARDOT's ability to identify Salmonella, Bhunia and his fellow researchers grew bacteria from rinses of contaminated chicken, spinach and peanut butter on agar plates for about 16 hours. After ...