See also Bacteria detection and Isolation under “bacteria”

Laboratory testing:

Request a Test   Quest Diagnostics (can order many tests here). STD Testing (find a test near you)

Molzym (bacteria and fungal detection kits using PCR)

Cancer:

NeoGenomics Laboratories

Gram Stain:

PREVI Colour Gram (BioMerieux) (can stain up to 300 slides per hour).

DNA sequencing –Pathogen Identification:

Genome sequencing 

–Equipement

MiSeq (Illumina)  Thermo Fischer   Roche

–Services

Genewiz.

Thermo Fischer Lab startup program

Nucleic Acid Sequencing:

Oxford Nanopore MinION (portable nucleic acid sequencing device, which plugs directly into the USB drive of a stardard laptop and requires no additional infrastructure, and is capable of generating very long read sin real time).

DNA Extraction:

–From soil:  FastDNA Spin kit for Soil (MP Biomedicals, USA)

Virus Identification:

VirSorter 2   DeepVirFider. USEARCH.  CheckV

Microbial Analysis:

Oxford Nanopore

Whole Genome Sequencing

Oxford Nanopore

Characterization of Plasmids:

PLATON