Biology of Candida glabrata Candida glabrata is a fungus species of haploid yeast of the genus Candida, previously known as Torulopsis glabrata. Despite the fact that no sexual life cycle has been documented for this species, C. glabrata strains of both mating types are commonly found. Vaginal yeast infection, caused mainly by Candida albicans (and […]
The CAMP test (named for the original authors: Christie, Atkins, and Munch-Petersen) was first used in the identification of group B streptococci (GBS). Group B streptococci secrete a protein called CAMP factor or “protein B” that interacts with the beta-hemolysin produced and secreted by Staphylococcus aureus, this results in enhanced or synergistic hemolysis. The CAMP
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Biochemical Tests in Microbiology Lab
An anthroponotic disease, or anthroponosis, is an infectious disease in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals. The opposite of anthroponosis or anthroponotic disease is zoonosis. Zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans. Zoonoses
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Epidemiology, Public Health & Parasitic Diseases (Parasitology)
Therapeutic drugs are administered in various ways, and these include parenteral and oral administration. Other routes of drug administration include: Parenteral and oral drug administrations are the two major routes of drug administration. Parenteral drugs refer to therapeutic agents that are not given through the mouth (i.e. orally) but via injections. In parenteral drug administration,
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Pharmacokinetics is simply the study of how the body reacts to therapeutic agents or drugs over a period of time. It investigates what a therapeutic agent or drug does to the body after being administered. The pharmacokinetics of a particular drug describes alterations in the absorption, distribution, metabolism and the elimination or excretion of the
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology
To be clinically effective for the treatment of infectious diseases, every drug must reach a certain level of bioavailability in vivo; and this is critical because drugs contain other constituents aside the actual portion of the medicine which is necessary to express antimicrobial action in the recipient host. The bioavailability of a drug is the
Water quality is defined as the suitability of water to sustain various uses or processes without causing any untoward effect to its users. Several human and natural factors influences the quality of water available for many industrial and domestic applications; and thus it is vital to continuously monitor water for various uses and processes –
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Environmental & Soil Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Active air monitoring also involve the use of settle plates or sedimentation culture plates (as is applicable in passive air sampling) and contact plates for the monitoring of air quality. It involves extracting a set volume of air within a given environment into a calibrated sampler which is then passed onto the surface on an
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Environmental & Soil Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Passive air monitoring is usually done using special type of Petri dish plates known as settle plates. These culture plates are standard Petri dishes (measuring about 90 mm in diameter) that containing appropriate culture media that are opened and exposed for a given time and then incubated to allow visible colonies to develop and be
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Environmental & Soil Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Glass Plating Beads are reusable beads which helps to spread suspensions of microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) in a culture plate even much more than a conventional spreader. They are applicable when turbid suspensions of microbial cells (fungi or bacteria) are to be spread in an culture plate for such purposes as determination of the colony
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Bacteriology, Techniques in Microbiology Lab