Inspissation

Inspissation

Inspissation is the process of thickening by dehydration. More specifically, it is the process used when heating high-protein containing media; for example to enable recovery of bacteria for testing. Once inspissation has occurred, any stained bacteria, such as Mycobacteria, can then be isolated.

A common example of inspissation is frying an egg; the loss of water from the protein causes the egg to thicken from a gelatinous fluid to a solid.

A "Serum inspissation" or "Fractional sterilization" is a process of heating an article on 3 successive days as follows:

References

#Textbook of Microbiology by Prof. C P Baveja, ISBN 81-7855-266-3
#Textbook of Microbiology by Ananthanarayan and Panikar, ISBN 81-250-2808-0


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  • inspissation — noun see inspissate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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