Hemolysis is the breakdown of red blood cells. The ability of bacterial colonies to induce hemolysis when grown on blood agar is used to classify certain...

A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a method of multiplying microbial organisms by letting them reproduce in predetermined culture medium...

viridans streptococci) display alpha-hemolysis. Alpha-hemolysis is also termed incomplete hemolysis or partial hemolysis because the cell membranes of the...

(EGFR), the rational target of anti-colorectal cancer therapy. Hemolysis (microbiology) Pore-forming toxins Staphylococcus aureus Stipcevic T, Piljac...

while the cause of hemolysis must be determined using laboratory tests. Treatment of the condition is specific to the cause of hemolysis, but intense phototherapy...

and gamma-hemolysis. In alpha-hemolysis, the blood is partially digested, causing the area around the colony to turn green. In beta-hemolysis, the organism...

In microbiology, streaking is a technique used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism, often bacteria. Samples can then be taken...

of hemolysis, species are divided within three different categories: incomplete (α hemolytic), complete (β-hemolytic), and no (γ hemolytic) hemolysis detected...

In microbiology, the term isolation refers to the separation of a strain from a natural, mixed population of living microbes, as present in the environment...

enhanced hemolysis. Streaking these two organisms perpendicular to each other on a blood agar plate will yield a “bow tie” shaped zone of hemolysis which...

Medical microbiology, the large subset of microbiology that is applied to medicine, is a branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis...

"pre-pore" complex and then a β-barrel is penetrated into the membrane. Hemolysis (microbiology) Thiol-activated cytolysin Sea anemone cytotoxic protein Computer...

media can be differentiated on the basis of hemolysis. CNA agar is commonly used in clinical microbiology laboratories to isolate pathogenic Gram-positive...

(partial) or beta (complete) hemolysis than less virulent specimens of Enterococcus, which frequently exhibit gamma (absent) hemolysis. Members of the genus...

Diagnostic microbiology is the study of microbial identification. Since the discovery of the germ theory of disease, scientists have been finding ways...

microscope, and has large, round, golden-yellow colonies, often with hemolysis, when grown on blood agar plates. S. aureus reproduces asexually by binary...

Central Public Health Laboratory in the United Kingdom tests for motility, hemolysis, rhizoid growth, susceptibility to γ-phage, and fermentation of ammonium...

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stain, is a bacteriological staining technique used in cytopathology and microbiology to identify acid-fast bacteria under microscopy, particularly members...

Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9. "Indicator Plates". Retrieved 12 July 2018. "Blood Agar Plates and Hemolysis Protocols"...

specific cell types derived from plants or animals, and those used for microbiological culture, which are used for growing microorganisms such as bacteria...

are capable of hemolysis, the degree of which has been used to characterize them, with B. hyodysenteriae showing strong beta hemolysis while B. pilosicoli...

excreted by the kidney. Increased amounts of bilirubin are formed in hemolysis, which generates increased urobilinogen in the gut. In liver disease (such...

In microbiology, McFarland standards are used as a reference to adjust the turbidity of bacterial suspensions so that the number of bacteria will be within...

Indiana Department of Health. "Microbiology Techniques & Troubleshooting". Science Buddies. "Bios 318 Microbiology methods manual". www.ruf.rice.edu...

Lancefield designations are still often used to communicate medical microbiological test results. The classification assigns a letter code to each serotype...

morphology, growth patterns (such as aerobic or anaerobic growth), patterns of hemolysis, and staining. As with bacterial classification, identification of bacteria...

An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and...

are suspected, they may recommend alternate test methods. For example, hemolysis, icterus, lipemia, or heterophile antibodies may confound results obtained...

Durham tubes are used in microbiology to detect production of gas by microorganisms. They are simply smaller test tubes inserted upside down in another...