Ames

Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics

Antimicrobial Agent

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST)

Bacillus

Bacteria

Bioburden

CFU

Chromogenic media

CLSI

Coccus

Conjugation

Endospore

Enteric Bacteria

EUCAST

Flagellum

Fungi

Gram Stain

Membrane filtration

MIC

Microbiology

Microorganism

Morphology

OPKA

Pathogen

Penicillins

Plasmid

SBA

Spirillum

Spirochaete

SRID – Single Radial Immunodiffusion

Sterility test

Vaccine

Vibrio

Virus

Definition of CFU

A colony forming unit, or CFU, is a unit commonly used to estimate the concentration of microorganisms in a test sample. The number of visible colonies (CFU) present on an agar plate can be multiplied by the dilution factor to provide a CFU/ml result.