Microbiology Test Method Guides
Please choose a test method guide either by organism or generic test type:
Automating the Food Microbiology Lab
How to make your food microbiology laboratory more automated, improve workflow and get better more consistent micro results
Beers and Wines - Microbial Quality Control
Suppliers for kits for spoilage of beers and wines, hop resistant yeasts, Brettanomyces spp.
Bioburden Testing - Rapid Microbiological Methods
Find the latest rapid microbiology products for bioburden testing
Campylobacter Detection and Identification Methods
Review of detection and identification methods for Campylobacter in foods - chromogenic media, rapid methods, PCR kits.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products - Microbiological Testing
How to do microbiology testing on cannabis and cannabis-derived products. Includes list of suppliers of different test kits.
Chromogenic Media
Microbiological Analysis using Chromogenic and Fluorogenic Media
Key Points
Initially developed for clinical applications, chromogenic media are now available for food, water and environmental samples.
They can allow enumeration, detection, presumptive identification sometimes even full identification from an isolation plate.
What are chromogenic / fluorogenic media?
Chromogenic and fluorogenic media
Clean Rooms
How AI is Changing Compliance in cGMP Environmental Monitoring
Key Points
ready to use specially packaged media are available for environmental monitoring
trending of monitoring data helps set action and alert levels
pinpointing contamination sources is vital
A clean room is an environment where the levels of airborne contaminants are
Clostridioides difficile Detection and Identification
Clostridioides difficile (previously called Clostridium difficle) is the commonest identifiable cause of antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD), this review looks at rapid detection and identification methods for C. diff.
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Rapid Antigen/Near-Patient/PoC Tests for COVID-19 - Buyer's Guide
This buyers' guide summarizes the range of COVID-19 rapid tests available on the world market for near-patient, screening and serial testing at workplaces, airports and schools. It also gives details of each supplier and provides a means to contact them.
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): Test Kits to Detect the Causative Agent of COVID-19
Comprehensive list of EUA and CE marked test kits to detect SARS-CoV-2: The causative agent of COVID-19. Includes Real-time PCR, lateral flow serology tests and swabs for virology.