Bacteriology

Tests offered

• Aerobic culture
• Anaerobic culture  
• Antibiotic susceptibility (each)  
• Antibiotic susceptibility, MIC  
• Blood culture
• Campylobacter sp. culture
• Clostridium perfringens culture
• Clostridium perfringens toxin typing PCR  
• Fungal culture
• Gram stain
• Environmental culture
• Leptospira sp. PCR
• MALDI-TOF
• Microbial sequencing including bacterial, viral and fungal
• Mastitis culture Quarter/composite aerobic sample
• Mastitis Herd survey (>8 cows, all 4 quarters per cow)
• Mastitis Mycoplasma
• Mastitis Mycoplasma 10 samples/pool  
• Bulk tank milk analysis
• Bulk tank milk analysis (quant. culture) with Mycoplasma
• Mastitis Species ID from plates slants/isolates  
• Mycoplasma sp. culture
• Mycoplasma PCR (species, MG, MS, bovis, hyopneumoniae)                                      
• Quantitative bacterial culture
• Salmonella cultures
• Salmonella enteriditis (SE) PCR
• Salmonella serotyping
• Salmonella serogrouping
• Special stains
• Water analysis for coliforms

Penn State no longer performs the anitibiotic residue testing

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Section Supervisor

Dr. Philma Muthuraj
Email: pzm5552@psu.edu
Office: 814-863-0837

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Laboratory Technicians

Jacob Kardelis
Email: jck5536@psu.edu
Office: 814-863-1257

Tammy Matthews, MLT, (ASCP)
Email: tlm8@psu.edu
Office: 814-863-1257

Traci Pierre, MT, (ASCP)
Email: tap129@psu.edu
Office: 814-863-1257

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Current Fee Schedule

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