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Microbiological culture

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Image:Anthrax_01.jpg thumb|200px|right|A culture of ''[[Bacillus anthracis'']] A '''microbiological culture''', or '''microbial culture''', is a method of growing a microbial organism to determine what it is, its abundance in the sample being tested, or both. It is one of the primary diagnosis diagnostic methods of microbiology. It is often used a tool to determine the cause of infectious disease by letting the agent multiply (Cell growth reproduce) in predetermined media in laboratory. The most common method of microbiological culture uses Petri dishes with a layer of agar plate agar-based growth medium in them to grow bacterial cultures. This is generally done inside of an incubator (microbiology) incubator. The term ''culture'' can also, though infrequently and informally, be used as a synonym for tissue culture, which involves the growth of cells or tissues explanted from a multi-cellular organism.

Types of culture
* Blood culture * Sputum culture * Tissue culture * Culture of various fluids such as pleural effusion pleural fluid and ascites peritoneal fluid * Urine culture

See also
* Screening cultures {{micro-stub}} Category:Laboratory techniques fr:Culture microbiologique ja:培養 pt:Cultura bacteriana