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. Microbial cultures are used to
determine the type of organism, its abundance in the sample being tested, or
both. It is one of the primary diagnostic methods of microbiology and used as
a tool to determine the cause of infectious disease by letting the agent
multiply in a predetermined medium. For example, a throat culture is taken by
scraping the lining of tissue in the back of the throat and blotting the sample
into a medium to be able to screen for harmful microorganisms, such as
Streptococcus pyogenes, the causative agent of strep throat. Furthermore,
the term culture is more generally used informally to refer to selectively
growing a specific kind of microorganism in laboratory.
There are various type of microbiological culture.
Such as Bacterial culture, blood culture, Eukaryotic cell culture,Isolation of pure cultures etc.
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