Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the ...

A popular cheese has been recalled over fears some blocks have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC).

Since cefixime and tellurite are known to inhibit most bacteria belonging to Enterobacterales, we found that addition of tellurite inhibited E ...

Microbiology lab media plates show E. coli bacteria growing on E. coli selective agar (pink) and blood agar (red). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

transform separately pET11a-link-NGFP and pMRBAD-link-CGFP into an E. coli strain that gives high-quality plasmid DNA (for example, DH10B or XL1-Blue) and plate onto selective agar media.