In research and clinical settings, the safe disposal of microorganisms is of paramount importance. Microbes encountered in the hospital laboratory have often been isolated from patients. These organisms can be the cause of the malady that has...

A throat culture is a technique for identifying disease bacteria in material taken from the throat. Most throat cultures are done to rule out infections caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci, which cause strep throat. Hemolytic means that these...

A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a method of multiplying microbial organisms by letting them reproduce in predetermined culture media under controlled laboratory conditions. Microbial cultures are used to determine the type of...

" ... I did develop ... a kind of root down in Atlanta," confided Hale Woodruff during an oral history interview, "You may have heard of it. It was called the 'Outhouse School' and, frankly, it was given such a name as this...

The application of technological advances in microbiology to dairy science grows more important as more consumers demand lowfat and nutritious dairy products with longer shelf life. Microbial cultures preserve dairy food products which when fermented result in other products such as cheese and buttermilk....