Bacteria - Living Material
Live specimens are used for a wide variety of studies including studying the physiological effects of drugs on a specimen’s heartbeat and temperature on metabolism, the locomotion of microscopic organisms, and studying plant respiration, photosynthesis, plosmolysis, and more. Algal cultures form colonies of cells that are extremely easy to visualize for better understanding of cell walls and plastids, and many live specimens reproduce rapidly for quick turnover between successive tests.
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Ward's® Live Enterobacter aerogenes Culture
This organism is commonly recovered from soil and water. As normal intestinal flora, it can also usually be found in sewage.
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Gloeotrichia
Freshwater. Filamentous. Trichomes radiating from basil heterocysts. Basic culture solution.
Shipped in a form that provides the best quality specimen. Most are supplied in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars.
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Ward's® Lyngbya
Freshwater. Filamentous. Unbranched trichome, thinly sheathed; oscillating movement. Basic culture solution.
Shipped in a form that provides the best quality specimen. Most are supplied in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars.
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Nostoc, Filamentous
Freshwater. Filamentous. Unbranched, contorted filaments. Basic culture solution.
Shipped in a form that provides the best quality specimen. Most are supplied in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars.
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Fischerella (Stigonema)
Freshwater. Filamentous. True branching, dimorphic structure. Basic culture solution.
Shipped in a form that provides the best quality specimen. Most are supplied in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars..
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Ward's® Merismopedia
Freshwater. Colonial. Sheet of many cells one cell thick. Soil-water medium.
Shipped in a form that provides the best quality specimen. Most are supplied in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars.
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Ward's® Chromobacterium Violaceum
Found in fresh water. Chromogenesis; blue to purple pigments produced. Motile. Rods. Gram negative reaction. Aerobic. Incubation temperature 30°C. Blood agar growth medium. Note: Pathogen.
Packaged in a 16×125 mm tubes. Call our Customer Service for availability of demo plates and other special orders.
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Streptococcus sanguinis
Normal flora of the mouth and throat. Lancefield group H, alpha hemolysis. Optochin resistant. May cause infections in humans. Nonmotile. Cocci; chains. Gram positive reaction. Aerobic. Incubation temperature 37°C. Blood agar growth medium. Note: Pathogen.
Packaged in a 16 x 125 mm tubes. Call our Customer Service for availability of demo plates and other special orders.
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Ward's® Moraxella catarrhalis
Normal flora of respiratory tract. Beta-lactamase positive. Also known by the name Branhamella catarrhalis
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Ward's® Live Bacillus subtilis Culture
This organism is commonly isolated in soil and produces antibiotics such as bacitracin, subtilisin, and mycobacillin.
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Ward's® Live Salmonella enteritidis Culture - PATHOGEN
Frequent human isolate. Causes gastroenteritis.
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Ward's® Live Shigella flexneri Culture - PATHOGEN
From sewage and human intestine. Causes dysentery.
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Ward's® Live Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum Culture
This organism is commonly isolated from human nasopharyngeal mucosa
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Ward's® Live Alcaligenes viscolactis Culture
The presence of A. viscolactis in milk is a common cause for sliminess or "ropiness".
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Ward's® Live Staphylococcus saprophyticus Culture
Grows on dead tissues. Novobiocin resistant (S. epidermidis and S. aureus novobiocin sensitive).

