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Methods for getting clean C. difficile spore preps without spores clumping together
I'm a microbiologist recently who recently started working on an ongoing C. difficile project for the first time. One of the things I need to do is verify the lower detection limit of my qPCR ...
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How do I homogenise a small pellet of 10 to 50 cells within less than 50 µL?
I have a problem with declumping/ homogenising bacterial cells in small volumes (10 to 50 µL). I know that I can get all of my cells out of the tube, but they are still stuck together and won't form ...
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Using catalase-test to determine if Staphylo- or Streptococcus
If the microscope clearly shows bacteria of cocci morphology but it is difficult to determine if they are Staphylo- or Streptococcus, are catalase tests a good way to differentiate between the two ...
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