Since cefixime and tellurite are known to inhibit most bacteria belonging to Enterobacterales, we found that addition of tellurite inhibited E. albertii growth in Luria Bertani broth but not in ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Posting on Instagram as @thebookishbacteriologist, Grosser displays petri dishes that recreate the covers of her latest reads. She combines each image with a book review and a microbiology fact—or, ...

Bacterial genetics is based on the ability to select for rare mutants among large populations (1 in >10 10) on the basis of the ability of the bacteria to survive lethal challenges, grow in the ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii growing together on differential media (MacConkey agar) that allows for distinguishing them based on their different metabolic capacity (Klebsiella is ...