Bacterial Culture

A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a method of multiplying microbial organisms by letting them reproduce in predetermined culture media under controlled laboratory conditions. A microbiological culture is used as a diagnostic tool in microbiology to dermine the amount of an organism present and what type of organism it is. One type of microbial culture is a bacterial culture. Bacteria cultures use a petri dish with a thin layer of agar based media. Bacteria culturing then involves the incubating of the streaked bacteria on the plate in an oven at 37 degrees Celsius. Constant temperature is very important for bacteria culture growth. It is important to know how to culture bacteria if you are a student studying microbiology or if you are a medical technologist. Undergraduate classes and research laboratories are great places to learn how to culture bacteria. BD, Himedia Laboratories, and G-Biosciences provide supplies used for bacterial cultures.