This test can also be called an acid-fast bacillus smear and culture, AFB smear and culture, TB culture and sensitivity, or a mycobacterial culture. How Does an AFB Stain Test Work?

Fried rice syndrome death. The death was originally published as a case report in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in 2011. In the report, researchers describe a 20-year-old student in Belgium ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 93, No. 3 (September, 2010), pp. 385-390 (6 pages) A colony of the cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum Berg, suffered a die-off that involved 100% larval mortality in ...

A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology has identified Bacillus velezensis, a bacterial agent commonly used in agriculture, as the cause of a foodborne outbreak because of rope ...

Nattokinase is a natural enzyme in natto, a Japanese soy-based food. The enzyme is produced during natto’s fermentation process by a specific bacterium called Bacillus subtilis. High natto ...