Microbial Identification Services

Bacterial Identification and Fungal Identification

When is it important to undertake bacterial identification or fungal identification?

When routine quality assurance activities identify unknown bacteria or unknown fungi in a product and the specific identity must be determined for risk assessment purposes.

When your company needs to know which microorganisms are naturally present in critical environments or on a particular object, such as on a work surface in a manufacturing environment.

How Does Antimicrobial Test Laboratories Identify Bacteria and Fungi?

Antimicrobial Test Laboratories always tries to use "best in class" analysis techniques. To this end, we've partnered with Microcheck Microbial Analysis Laboratory for bacterial and fungal identification.

Here's how it works:

Your company sends Antimicrobial Test Laboratories samples for elution, plating, and isolation of individual microorganisms.

Antimicrobial Test Laboratories discusses with you the extent of contamination, heterogeneity of the contaminants, and whether they are bacterial or fungal.

After agreeing on an appropriate number of unknown microorganisms to isolate and identify, Antimicrobial Test Laboratories isolates and ships them to our partner laboratory, Microcheck.

Bacteria are identified by state-of-the-art DNA analysis. Fungi are identified by subculturing followed by microscopic analysis, usually within 4 business days. If fungi don't reproduce in culture, DNA identification is an option.

We forward the Microcheck report to you, handle all the billing, and work with Microcheck to answer any questions you may have. We look forward to working with your company to identify unknown bacteria and fungi! Feel free to contact the lab with any questions you may have.