Plate count agar (PCA), also called standard methods agar (SMA), is a microbiological growth medium commonly used to assess or to monitor "total" or viable...

rewarmed to room temperature prior to inoculation.[citation needed] Plate count agar Bacteria Bacterial growth American Public Health Association, American...

nutrient agar in a dish that is sealed and incubated. Typical media include plate count agar for a general count or MacConkey agar to count Gram-negative...

tissue is present Examples of nutrient media: nutrient agar plate count agar trypticase soy agar A defined medium that has just enough ingredients to support...

the free dictionary. PCA may refer to: Patient-controlled analgesia Plate count agar in microbiology Polymerase cycling assembly, for large DNA oligonucleotides...

use of an agar plate, no fluid solution can be used because the purity of the specimen cannot be unidentified and it is not possible to count the cells...

package Surface-mount assembly, in electronics Standard methods agar or plate count agar SMA, several medical abbreviations SMA 12, SMA 20 and SMAC, previous...

other agar plate types. For example, blood agar plates (BAP) are made by enriching TSA plates with defibrinated sheep blood, and chocolate agar is made...

Staphylococcus, as designed by Schleifer and Krämer, or alternatively on plate-count agar. The medium specific to staphylococci ensured that only members of...

the inoculate back and forth with an inoculating loop over the solid agar plate. Upon incubation, colonies will arise and single cells will have been...

enumeration of colonies on agar plates can be greatly facilitated by using colony counters. A Coulter counter is an appliance that can count cells as well as measure...

Franco, B.D.G.D.M. (2006). Comparison of Petrifilm Aerobic Count Plates and De Man-Rogosa-Sharpe Agar for Enumeration of Lactic Acid Bacteria [electronic version]...

Following her initial suggestion of using agar as an alternative to gelatin, they were instrumental in pioneering agar's usage as a common gelling agent for...

0 cm. It is important to avoid touching the surface of the agar with the pipette. The plates are left upright on the bench to dry before inversion and...

cells is also counted on the surface of the bridge by light microscope. In some cases the bridge between the two chambers is filled with agar and cells have...

liquid on an agar plate containing rich media. The incubation step is commonly done on a 96-well plate. After spreading, the agar plates are then incubated...

Soybean-Casein Digest Agar and incubated in order to be able to determine the total aerobic microbial count (TAMC). In the Plate Count Method, the sample...

or semisolid surface. The culture medium is often an agar plate, a layer a few mm thick of agar or agarose gel containing whatever nutrients the organism...

the "Great Plate Count Anomaly". The ichip instead cultures bacterial species within its soil environment. The soil is diluted in molten agar and nutrients...

Laboratory technicians inoculate the sample onto certain solid agar plates with the streak plate method or into liquid culture medium, depending what the objective...

test uses the growth of a strain of bacteria on a specially-prepared agar plate as a sign for the presence of high levels of phenylalanine, phenylpyruvate...

identity. The blood is then subcultured, meaning it is streaked onto an agar plate to isolate microbial colonies for full identification and antimicrobial...

counting the number of positive wells out of possible 96 or 48 wells is much less time-consuming than counting individual colonies on an agar plate....

Yao K, et al. (2010). "Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of Kato-Katz, Koga Agar Plate, Ether-Concentration, and FLOTAC for Schistosoma mansoni and Soil-Transmitted...

Most Dip slides consist of 1 - 2 agars attached to a flexible plastic paddle, this allows full contact of the agar onto the desired area for testing...

center of a sheep blood agar plate. The test organism streak should be 3 to 4 cm long. Streak test organisms across the plate perpendicular to the S....

meaning "waxy" in Latin, refers to the appearance of colonies grown on blood agar. Some strains are harmful to humans and cause foodborne illness due to their...

a PMT detector. Some plate readers use an Analog PMT detector while others have a photon counting PMT detector. Photon Counting is widely accepted as...

"Enhancing Bioaerosol Sampling by Andersen Impactors Using Mineral-Oil-Spread Agar Plate". PLOS ONE. 8 (2): e56896. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...856896X. doi:10.1371/journal...

culture tubes. After a period of growth, they plated equal volumes of these separate cultures onto agar containing the T1 phage (virus). If resistance...