
Whether you study viruses, bacteria, yeasts, or parasites. Here you can find out how well-suited BMG LABTECH plate readers are for all of these microbiological approaches.
Microbiological assays examine mechanisms in bacteria, viruses, and parasites. They are essential for understanding infectious diseases, their spread, treatment, and prevention.
Many assays assess the growth or reproduction of microbes. Bacteria, fungi and parasites are mainly quantified using the absorbance measurement mode, while the replication of viruses is typically measured by luminescence. All growth and replication assays need to be measured over time in order to determine growth rates. Time courses can be measured with all BMG LABTECH microplate readers. In addition, the instruments regulates the incubation temperature and atmosphere to desired O2 and CO2 values, generating optimal growth conditions.
BMG LABTECH's multi-mode plate readers can do much more than just growth measurements: they measure how a virus docks onto a cell, how viruses can be neutralized, what helps against biofilms, whether a substance has an antibiotic effect and much more. Learn more about virus detection methods and how to detect a virus with a microplate reader.


Mycology & yeasts

Bacteriology

Parasitology
Resources
Search our resources section for information about specific applications, literature citations, videos, blog articles and many other publications. Many of the resources provided are associated with current and previous instrument models and versions.

Testing novel bacteriophages for antibacterial properties with a crystal violet biofilm quantification assay
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a growing threat to human health. Read this App note to learn how bacteriophage efficacy can be evaluated on microplate readers.

Establishing luminescence-based assays: miniaturised experiments help to optimise results
Optimising your luminescence-based experiment and instrument settings can greatly benefit your assay results. BMG LABTECH microplate readers are the ideal measurement platform for this purpose.

Faster PyroGene™ Detection of Endotoxin using Enhanced Dynamic Range on the CLARIOstar Plus
Read how to detect endotoxins in only 15 minutes using the fluorescent PyroGene™ assay and a CLARIOstar Plus microplate reader with EDR function here.

Expression of a stable green fluorescent protein mutant in group B streptococcus. Growth, detection and monitoring, with the CLARIOstar
Read here, how the growth of group B streptococcus can be monitored in real time by expression of a bright GFP mutant with the CLARIOstar® microplate reader.

Assay development for essential enzyme activity in the tegument of live Schistosomes
Learn how absorbance-based assays report the activity of indispensable Schistosoma enzymes to study the effectiveness of new drugs and vaccines in live parasites and in real-time.

Mitochondrial oxidant generation follows oxygen deprivation and re-oxygenation
Rapid oxygen changes influence cellular respiration. The CLARIOstar® enables to successively measure mitochondrial oxidant generation after oxygen deprivation and re-oxygenation.

MycoAlert®
You want to make sure that your cell culture is free of mycoplasma? BMG LABTECH microplate readers are the perfect measurement platform to read MycoAlert® mycoplasma detection kits.

Measure microbial growth using the „OD600“
OD600 is part of a lot of microbiology studies. Reason enough for us to use this article to explain why the method is used so intensively and what should be considered for the measurement.

Advances in Combating Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotics, which are the last resort for many infections are threatened by upcoming resistances. Read here why microplate readers are an indispensable tool in combating antibiotic resistance.

On track of new gut bacteria that can influence our health
Obligate anaerobic gut bacteria require an absolute anaerobic environment. Read how the FLUOstar Omega was used to develop new methods to study the human gut microbiome.

Bacterial growth measurements on a microplate reader
Want to incubate bacteria and monitor their growth in the same instrument? See how BMG LABTECH microplate readers support you in this.
Generation of In Vivo Traceable Hepatocyte-Like Cells from Human iPSCs
Ashmore-Harris, C;Fruhwirth, GO; [2022]
Methods in 60988327697 (Clifton, N.J.) 2544 15-49
Injectability, Processability, Drug Loading, and Antibacterial Activity of Gentamicin-Impregnated Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Composite Calcium Phosphate Bone Cement In Vitro
Hu, MH;Chu, PY;Huang, SM;Shih, BS;Ko, CL;Hu, JJ;Chen, WC; [2022]
Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) 7(3)
Bacteriophage as a potential therapy to control antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection through topical application onto a full-thickness wound in a rat model
Rezk, N;Abdelsattar, AS;Elzoghby, D;Agwa, MM;Abdelmoteleb, M;Aly, RG;Fayez, MS;Essam, K;Zaki, BM;El-Shibiny, A; [2022]
Journal, genetic engineering & 61511166610 20(1) 133
The Catalase KatA Contributes to Microaerophilic H2O2 Priming to Acquire an Improved Oxidative Stress Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Linzner, N;Loi, VV;Antelmann, H; [2022]
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 11(9)
The evolution and role of the periplasmic asparaginase Asp3 in yeast
Coral-Medina, A;Fenton, DA;Varela, J;Baranov, PV;Camarasa, C;Morrissey, JP; [2022]
FEMS yeast research 22(1)
A novel Candida glabrata doxycycline-inducible system for in vitro/in vivo use
Schrevens, S;Sanglard, D; [2022]
FEMS yeast research 22(1)

Malaria research on the CLARIOstar Plus
Read in this customer story how our microplate reader CLARIOstar Plus can help you with your Malaria Research.

Quorum sensing inhibition: a possible answer to antibiotic resistance
The lab of Associate Professor Crystale Lim Siew Ying focusses on antibiotic resistance profiling.

A center for synthetic biology supports academics, start-ups and industry
David Bell and Miles Priestman from Imperial College London, talk about how to run a synthetic biology lab and how our microplate readers can help.

Running a synthetic biology lab with BMG LABTECH plate readers
Kirsten Jensen from Imperial College London, talks about how to run a synthetic biology lab and how our microplate readers can help.

Enabling automated synthetic biology research
Chris Hirst, a Product Specialist at CyBio FeliX, talks about enabling automated synthetic biology research and how the CLARIOstar Plus can help.

PHERAstar FSX
Powerful and most sensitive HTS plate reader

CLARIOstar Plus
Most flexible Plate Reader for Assay Development

VANTAstar
Flexible microplate reader with simplified workflows

Omega Series
Upgradeable single and multi-mode microplate reader series

NEPHELOstar Plus
Microplate nephelometer for light-scattering and turbidity measurements

SPECTROstar Nano
Absorbance plate reader with cuvette port