Performance of a standard method depends on the quality of reagents, equipment, commercial and in-house test procedures and labs should ensure they have been validated and shown to be fit for purpose.

It’s often a challenge to identify Salmonella species in samples heavily contaminated with competing microbiological flora, so Lab M has added new Xylose Lysine Tergitol-4 (XLT4) Agar to its extensive ...

Chromogenic Agar for Salmonella Esterase (CASE) uses a proprietary dual chromogenic system to differentiate between Salmonella and non-target organisms that grow on the agar. It detects all Salmonella ...

Agar dilution and broth dilution are the most commonly used techniques to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics and other substances that ...

The Ames test, also called the Salmonella test, is a short-term bacterial assay used to identify substances that cause gene mutations. Credit: sruilk/Shutterstock.com The basic concept of the Ames ...

Determination of hemolysis type is a key classification system in medical diagnostics and microbiology, and is especially useful in classifying streptococcal species. Serious infection diseases such ...