Live Specimens

Isolated from sewage, human intestines, and urinary tract infections. Spreading colonies are seen on agar growth medium. 

This organism can be isolated from many human urinary tract infections, as well as polluted water and sewage. It is commonly identified by its distinctive grape-like smell (trimethylamine) or because it can turn the agar light green due to production of a blue pigment (pyocyanin).

Lancefield group A, beta hemolysis. Sensitive to bacitracin. Causes strep throat, rheumatic fever, and scarlet fever.

Isolated from human urinary tract and wound infections, this organism is identifiable by its characteristic putrefactive odor. 

Three Morphology Types in One Tube

Demonstrates isogamous reproduction where gametes are similar in appearance and behavior. Make lectures and labs on protist reproduction clearer with our specially selected cultures that illustrate various reproductive phenomona.

Freshwater. Unicellular; homothallic strain. Basic culture solution. Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

This harmless insect parasitizes the Sarcophaga (flesh fly) pupae. Females usually lay 30–50 eggs in the pupae, which provide food for the Nasonia larvae when they hatch.

Watch New Planaria Generate from Sectioned Parts

Mold structures

Classic experiment to demonstrate crossing over.

A collection of some of the strains of Escherichia coli needed to grow various coliphages (available separately).

Found in seawater and marine animals. Young cultures luminescent.

Ascomycete. Wine yeast: Used in fermentation activities. Incubation temperature 30°C. Sabouraud dextrose agar growth medium.

Kocuria rhizophila is also commonly known by the name Micrococcus luteus. This organism is commonly isolated from soil, and is frequently used to test antimicrobial efficacy in the food industry.

This organism is normal flora of human skin.