Sentences with phrase «bacteria in laboratory culture»

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers have determined that vitamin C kills drug - resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture.

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug - resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture.

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The sample may be used for a urinalysis (a test that microscopically checks the urine for germs or pus) or a urine culture (which attempts to grow and identify bacteria in a laboratory).

When the scientists succeeded in collecting the queen, part of the colony was transported to the laboratory, and all the bacteria found on the insects» surface and inside their bodies were isolated, characterized, and placed in culture medium.

Interestingly, the collected sample had been cultured successfully in the laboratory only when it was allowed to grow in the company of a species of bacteria, Methylobacterium, that antibiotics were unable to kill.

Anthony St. Leger, Ph.D., research fellow in Caspi's laboratory, was able to culture bacteria from the mouse conjunctiva, the membrane that lines the eyelids.

«While traditional urine cultures have been the gold standard to identify urine disorders in the past, they do not detect most bacteria and have limited utility as a result,» said Paul Schreckenberger, PhD, director, clinical microbiology laboratory, Loyola University Health System.

«The mutation prevention system maintained antibiotic sensitivity not only in E. coli strains cultured in standard laboratory conditions but also in bacteria that were used to colonize the gastrointestinal tract of gnotobiotic mice.

They also report that the bacteria can not be detected by the usual methods because they enter a kind of «dormant» state and so can not be cultured in the laboratory (Journal of Applied Bacteriology, vol 74, p 421).

If any bacteria are cultured in the urine our laboratory will test numerous antibiotics to determine which are the best ones to eliminate the bacteria.

Definitive illumination of these processes has not occurred in the laboratory, as it takes rigorous physical controls as well as a great deal of skill to culture these bacteria.

Specimen Processors are found in laboratory environments and are responsible for handling specimens like bacteria cultures or blood samples.