Plate count agar (PCA), also called standard methods agar (SMA), is a microbiological growth medium commonly used to assess or to monitor "total" or viable...

nutrient agar in a dish that is sealed and incubated. Typical media include plate count agar for a general count or MacConkey agar to count Gram-negative...

use of an agar plate, no fluid solution can be used because the purity of the specimen cannot be unidentified and it is not possible to count the cells...

tissue is present Examples of nutrient media: nutrient agar plate count agar trypticase soy agar A defined medium that has just enough ingredients to support...

rewarmed to room temperature prior to inoculation.[citation needed] Plate count agar Bacteria Bacterial growth American Public Health Association, American...

package Surface-mount assembly, in electronics Standard methods agar or plate count agar SMA, several medical abbreviations SMA 12, SMA 20 and SMAC, previous...

the free dictionary. PCA may refer to: Patient-controlled analgesia Plate count agar in microbiology Polymerase cycling assembly, for large DNA oligonucleotides...

other agar plate types. For example, blood agar plates (BAP) are made by enriching TSA plates with defibrinated sheep blood, and chocolate agar is made...

the inoculate back and forth with an inoculating loop over the solid agar plate. Upon incubation, colonies will arise and single cells will have been...

Staphylococcus, as designed by Schleifer and Krämer, or alternatively on plate-count agar. The medium specific to staphylococci ensured that only members of...

enumeration of colonies on agar plates can be greatly facilitated by using colony counters. A Coulter counter is an appliance that can count cells as well as measure...

or semisolid surface. The culture medium is often an agar plate, a layer a few mm thick of agar or agarose gel containing whatever nutrients the organism...

0 cm. It is important to avoid touching the surface of the agar with the pipette. The plates are left upright on the bench to dry before inversion and...

Soybean-Casein Digest Agar and incubated in order to be able to determine the total aerobic microbial count (TAMC). In the Plate Count Method, the sample...

Following her initial suggestion of using agar as an alternative to gelatin, they were instrumental in pioneering agar's usage as a common gelling agent for...

Franco, B.D.G.D.M. (2006). Comparison of Petrifilm Aerobic Count Plates and De Man-Rogosa-Sharpe Agar for Enumeration of Lactic Acid Bacteria [electronic version]...

test uses the growth of a strain of bacteria on a specially-prepared agar plate as a sign for the presence of high levels of phenylalanine, phenylpyruvate...

Laboratory technicians inoculate the sample onto certain solid agar plates with the streak plate method or into liquid culture medium, depending what the objective...

liquid on an agar plate containing rich media. The incubation step is commonly done on a 96-well plate. After spreading, the agar plates are then incubated...

identity. The blood is then subcultured, meaning it is streaked onto an agar plate to isolate microbial colonies for full identification and antimicrobial...

center of a sheep blood agar plate. The test organism streak should be 3 to 4 cm long. Streak test organisms across the plate perpendicular to the S....

the "Great Plate Count Anomaly". The ichip instead cultures bacterial species within its soil environment. The soil is diluted in molten agar and nutrients...

counting the number of positive wells out of possible 96 or 48 wells is much less time-consuming than counting individual colonies on an agar plate....

cells is also counted on the surface of the bridge by light microscope. In some cases the bridge between the two chambers is filled with agar and cells have...

meaning "waxy" in Latin, refers to the appearance of colonies grown on blood agar. Some strains are harmful to humans and cause foodborne illness due to their...

Yao K, et al. (2010). "Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of Kato-Katz, Koga Agar Plate, Ether-Concentration, and FLOTAC for Schistosoma mansoni and Soil-Transmitted...

positive control is plated in a hundred fold dilution to count colony forming units. The microbes inoculate the tubes (or plate) and are incubated for...

a PMT detector. Some plate readers use an Analog PMT detector while others have a photon counting PMT detector. Photon Counting is widely accepted as...

grow on an agar plate in a given time is concentration-dependent, and since many other diagnostic techniques involve physically counting the number of...

a blood agar plate to confirm the presence of group A streptococcus. Throat cultures are effective for people who have a low bacterial count (high sensitivity)...