The acronym FTA stands for “Flinders Technology Association”. FTA CARDS are chemically treated Whatman filter papers that are designed for the collection, preservation and shipment of biological samples including clinical and environmental samples for subsequent DNA and RNA analysis. FTA cards are cotton-based, cellulose paper containing chemicals that lyse cells or biological samples, denatures proteins, […]
Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. Cholera was prevalent in the U.S. in the 1800s, before modern water and sewage treatment systems eliminated its spread
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Bacteriology
The integrity, purity and concentration of the RNA so isolated should be confirmed before proceeding to the next stage of the experiment. This is critical because it will help the researcher to know the amount of RNA he or she is working with, as well as ascertain its purity and integrity. And in this way,
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Biotechnology, Molecular Microbiology, Techniques in Microbiology Lab
Key facts about Buruli ulcer Buruli ulcer, caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is a chronic debilitating disease that affects mainly affects the skin and sometimes bone. The organism belongs to the family of bacteria that causes tuberculosis and leprosy, which provides an opportunity for collaboration with these disease programmes. However, M. ulcerans is an environmental bacterium and produces unique toxin
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Bacteriology
Microbiological risk assessment (MRA) is a structured process that is used for determining the public health risk associated with biological hazards in a given environment such as water, land, cosmetics, medications, food, air etc. Risk assessment is the backbone of the general practice of biosafety in any environment. Personnel involved in assessing public health risk in
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Laboratory Biosafety, Bioterrorism
Air quality is defined as the degree to which the ambient air in a particular environment is pollution-free. It is a measurement of the amount of contaminants in the air; and it gives a description of the healthiness and safety of the atmosphere of a given area at a given time. The quality of air
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Environmental & Soil Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology
GMP encompasses the rules governing the manufacture of a safe and efficacious pharmaceutical product, drug or food. And it is critical that the personnel working in pharmaceutical and food companies abide by these rules to ensure quality and safety during and after production. Personnel working in pharmaceutical and/or food companies where drugs and food are
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Some of the main sources of contamination in the course of production in a food or pharmaceutical company, and the areas of good manufacturing practice (GMP) that centers on controlling all possible sources of microbial contamination of pharmaceutical and/or food products during manufacturing include but not limited to the control of air, raw materials, water,
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology
GMP guidelines are not prescriptive instructions on how to manufacture any product including food, drugs, and other pharmaceutical products. Rather, the GMPs are a series of general principles that must be observed during the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, drugs and food in order to ensure that only products of high quality and one which is free
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Good manufacturing practice (GMP) is simply defined as those general rules that govern the manufacture and/or production of a safe, efficacious and microbial-free pharmaceutical product. GMP are practices and the systems required to be adapted in pharmaceutical manufacturing, quality control, and quality system covering the manufacture and testing of pharmaceuticals or drugs including active pharmaceutical ingredients,
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Pharmaceutical Microbiology