The Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plate was validated in comparison to the ISO 15214 reference method. Validation scope is enumeration of mesophilic lactic acid bacteria in all human foods (excluding ...

Researcher Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have devised a low cost, easy to administer method that could help detect the presence of bacteria in food and water ...

Far too many antibiotics are used around the world. As a result, bacteria are becoming resistant. Curing bacterial diseases is becoming more difficult than before, because antibiotics are perhaps our ...

Many fields of research and industry depend on being able to quantify bacteria. These include agriculture, healthcare, food production and industry. Some common applications include the accurate ...

Researchers at Umeå University have recently developed a highly sensitive method for detecting bacterial spores—tough microorganisms that survive extreme conditions and can cause both food poisoning ...

THE clinical diagnosis of pyelonephritis is frequently overlooked, and the disparity between the clinical and post-mortem findings in this infection has been emphasized repeatedly. 1–4 The failure of ...

Flow cytometry reveals unexpected high levels of bugs in tap water. Bugs in the system? Flowcytometry analysis of tap water by laser. Laser-based flow cytometry (see description below) can now be ...