Microbiological Culture Media: A Complete Guide for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Manufacturers

Did you realize that 90 percent of quality control microbiology remains reliant upon culture-based methods? Taking this fact into account, Microbiological Culture Media: A Complete Guide for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Manufacturers serves as an excellent reference because it focuses on microbiological culture media as applied to pharmaceutical microbiology.

In 23 informative chapters, this book covers how media is used in the modern pharmaceutical microbiology setting and recaps the past, signals the future, and helps interpret the present. The book has been written by Tim Sandle.

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This book also takes into consideration that innovations continue to arise with new media recipes that are formulated for the selection of new strains for the application of media in conjunction with rapid microbiological methods.

If you are a microbiologist working in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, you can’t afford not to own this book!

Contents:

1. Application of Culture Media in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Microbiology
2. History and Development of Microbiological Culture Media
3. The Science of Culture Media
4. Common Types of Microbiological Culture Media for Pharmaceutical Microbiology
5. The Media Kitchen and the Preparation of Microbiological Culture Media
6. Sterilization of Microbiological Culture Media
7. Quality Control of Culture Media
8. Microbial Cultures
9. The Use of Environmental Isolates in Pharmaceutical Microbiology
10. The Colony Forming Unit
11. Microbial Identification and Visual Assessment of Colonies
12. Qualification of Culture-Based Environmental Monitoring Methods
13. Incubation Strategies for Environmental Monitoring
14. Culture Media for Sterility Testing
15. Culture Media for Media Simulation Trials
16. Culture Media for Microbial Controls During Pharmaceutical Manufacture
17. Assessment of Culture Media for Water Testing
18. Culture Media for Cell Culture Work
19. Diluents and Neutralizers Required for the Pharmaceutical Microbiology Laboratory
20. Data Integrity, Computerized Systems and Microbiological Culture Media
21. Auditing Culture Media Suppliers
22. Industry Practices Relating Culture Media Use
23. Growth and Culture Based Rapid Microbiological Methods

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Posted by Dr. Tim Sandle