A composition and method for identifying a microbial composition that inhibits colonization of an enteric pathogen in an animal is disclosed. The method includes removing a microbial sample from a digestive tract of at least one healthy individual, culturing the microbial sample, isolating one or more microbial species within the microbial sample, and identifying one or more isolated microbial species. The method further includes determining one or more bile-tolerant properties of the one or more isolated microbial species, and creating one or more microbial compositions of the one or more isolated microbial species that are bile-tolerant. The method further includes determining an ability of the one or more microbial compositions to inhibit growth of an enteric pathogen in at least one of an assay, and identifying one or more microbial compositions from the one or more microbial compositions capable of inhibiting growth of enteric pathogens in an animal.

Methods of culturing and detecting a biomarker which may be associated with autoimmune diseases, in particular inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn's disease; also a screening method for substances suitable for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease including Crohn's disease; the method including culturing a biomarker in a culture media which includes a culture broth, OADC, PANTA and Mycobactin J.

According to an embodiment, there are provided a screening culture medium that enables a convenient and quick examination for the presence of Candida auris, and a screening method. According to at least one embodiment, the screening culture medium contains an enzyme substrate, in which the screening culture medium is used for screening Candida auris based on an ability to degrade the enzyme substrate, the enzyme substrate including raffinose and xylose. According to another embodiment, the screening method uses the screening culture medium.

The present invention features microbiological nutrient media capable of supporting growth of microorganisms. The medium includes a gelling agent and a dye and/or pigment that reduces background.

A reference test body for monitoring and/or verifying test conditions during a test of microbial barrier properties of at least one product, wherein the reference test body has a cavity, a nutrient medium, at least one opening, and at least one cover provided with a number of holes and covering the at least one opening. A constancy of test conditions can be monitored in this way. The invention further relates to an associated use, an associated test chamber, and an associated method.

A medium for Bacillus cereus group detection, which is favorable in growth of Bacillus cereus regardless of the temperature condition, and further is excellent in selectivity; and a method for detecting a Bacillus cereus group using the medium. The medium for Bacillus cereus group detection includes a phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C substrate having a detectable chromogenic or fluorescent free radical; and trimethoprim. The medium further includes a β-lactam antibiotic. The medium further includes an antifungal agent. The method for detecting further includes inoculating a sample into the medium to culture the sample; and determining a detectable colony on the medium.

The present disclosure provides a simple and secure apparatus and a simple and secure method for selectively detecting a tomato pathogenic fungus. The tomato pathogenic fungus detecting apparatus according to the present disclosure is characterized by including an artificial cell wall, a test sample solution inlet provided above the artificial cell wall, and a culture solution storage part provided under the artificial cell wall, wherein a test sample solution contains a 50 mM to 70 mM buffer solution of a citrate salt in the test sample solution inlet, and the test sample solution has a pH of 5 to 5.5.

A method and kit related thereto are described for the collection and maintenance of detectability of a plurality of species of microbiological agents in a single clinical sample as well as an integral method for handling a plurality of the samples and managing information associated therewith for reporting a sum of diagnostic results for each sample.

The invention deals with chromogenic media which are suitable for the selective growth and identification of one or more species of yeast. The subject of the invention is the method that enables us to identify and determine the cell count of Brettanomyces/Dekkera and Zygosaccharomyces yeasts. Besides, the subjects of invention are also the use of the method in wine and/or food industry and the stocks for conducting the experiment.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which can replace the conventional culture method that takes a long time of four to eight weeks to detect active tuberculosis, and which is a method for detecting active Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using isotopes on a sample of a patient's sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.