culture of microorganism

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• Culture — A culture is the propagation of microorganisms in a growth media. Any body tissue or fluid can be evaluated in the laboratory by culture techniques in order to detect and identify infectious processes. Culture techniques also be used to determine …   Medical dictionary

• Microorganism — Microbe redirects here. For other uses, see Microbe (disambiguation). A cluster of Escherichia coli …   Wikipedia

• Culture collection — A culture collection is a collection of microorganisms that is maintained by an academic institution. It can contain: *fungi *yeasts *bacteria *plasmids **with constructs expressing proteins **for vector usee.g. American Type Culture… …   Wikipedia

• culture medium — Medium Me di*um, n.; pl. L. {Media}, {E}. {Mediums}. [L. medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See {Mid}, and cf. {Medius}.] 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Microbiological culture — A culture of Bacillus anthracis 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… …   Wikipedia

• Enrichment culture — An enrichment culture is a medium with specific and known qualities that favors the growth of a particular microorganism. The enrichment culture s environment will support the growth of a selected microorganism, while inhibiting the growth of… …   Wikipedia

• American Type Culture Collection — The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is a private, not for profit biological resource center whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference… …   Wikipedia

• pure culture — the growth of only one microorganism in a culture. [1890 95] * * * In microbiology, laboratory culture containing a single species of organism. A pure culture is usually derived from a mixed culture (containing many species) by methods that… …   Universalium

• pure culture — n 1) a culture containing a growth of a single kind of organism free from other organisms 2) a culture containing the descendants of a single organism whether free from all organisms of other kinds or not * * * a culture that contains only one… …   Medical dictionary

• selective culture medium — a liquid or solid culture medium that contains inhibitory substances (antibiotics, dyes, tellurite, bile salts, etc.) that allow the growth of the desired microorganism while inhibiting the growth of contaminants. Selective culture medium.… …   Medical dictionary

• selective culture — a culture grown on a medium, usually solid, that has been supplemented to encourage the growth of a single species of microorganism. It may also include substances that inhibit the growth of other species …   Medical dictionary