Microbiology

Culture you can trust

Built on microbiology

Microbiology is at the heart of health, and your dedication inspires us. Thermo Fisher Scientific has spent over a century providing reliable culture media, yet our solutions go far beyond that. With a broad portfolio of instruments, services, and global resources, we’re steadfast in helping you succeed. Together, let’s cultivate a thriving microbiology culture that supports you today, tomorrow, and for life.

Comprehensive microbiology solutions for clinical, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical applications

Discover Thermo Scientific trusted microbiology solutions designed to support the diagnosis of infectious diseases, maintaining food and beverage safety and authenticity, and help ensure accurate and reliable detection of microbial contaminants in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

We serve clinical laboratories, food and beverage laboratories, and pharmaceutical manufacturers with a broad portfolio of culture media, antimicrobial susceptibility testing tools, traditional and rapid food testing methods, quality control organisms, and laboratory consumables. Whether you're improving diagnostic accuracy in clinical care, simplifying your food safety workflow, or ensuring sterility and compliance in pharmaceutical production, our integrated solutions deliver reliability, efficiency, and confidence at every step.

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About us

A Culture You Can Trust

Thermo Fisher Scientific has spent over a century providing reliable culture media, yet our solutions go far beyond that. With a broad range of instruments, services, and global resources across the microbiology portfolio, we’re determined to help you succeed.

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Discover a range of innovative solutions to address challenges for food and beverage testing laboratories of all sizes and maturity at IAFP 2025.

Watch our latest webinar on food microbiology automation

 

Clinical microbiology

Dedicated to life

 

In clinical microbiology, accuracy is everything. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers trusted culture media, diagnostic tools, and susceptibility testing to support your critical work and help fight antimicrobial resistance. With over a century of microbiology expertise, we provide the solutions you need to help achieve actionable results—ones that can guide effective clinical decision making to support improved patient outcomes.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is dedicated to empowering clinical laboratories with comprehensive microbiology solutions that enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline workflows, and support patient care. Our extensive portfolio encompasses validated products designed to meet the diverse needs of clinical microbiology, ranging from specimen collection, microbial detection and identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing to laboratory quality control

Explore our range of products, including:

  • Thermo Scientific specimen collection and transport solutions are designed to maintain sample integrity from collection, through transport, and up until sample processing. Ensure your laboratory receives healthy and viable organisms by choosing the right transport system.
  • Our wide range of culture media provides optimal organism recovery and differentiation, and supports the needs of all laboratories with pre-prepared plated and broth media as well as dehydrated culture media options. Our rigorous quality standards have made us a trusted source of culture media for laboratories around the world.
  • Our blood culture solution is reliable, simple and cost effective two-bottle system for detecting bacteria in blood and aiding early diagnosis of sepsis.  
  • For organism identification, the choice is yours: guide proper patient management with biochemical and immunological microorganism identification solutions to suit your needs.
  • Satisfy your antimicrobial susceptibility testing requirements with high performance automated and manual test products to help ensure patients are on the most appropriate treatment plan. Our AST products are designed with the user in mind and with what matters most: accurate, reliable, and consistent results.
  • Put your trust in quality control products for reproducible results and consistent microbiology testing.
  • Microbiology laboratory supplies offers a complete range from loops and needles to environmental systems, to support the entire clinical workflow.

Clinical microbiology featured products

Sensititre ARIS HiQ System for AST

Automate your antimicrobial susceptibility testing with Sensititre ARIS HiQ System to achieve comprehensive, accurate MIC results to guide targeted patient therapy.

Sensititre Gram Negative MDRGN4F AST Plate

Expand your Gram-negative organism susceptibility testing options by accessing MIC's for the latest antibiotics including sulbactam-durlobactam.

Sensititre YeastOne YO11 AST Plate

Simplify yeast susceptibility testing with YeastOne MIC plate including Micafungin and Rezafungin.

Spectra VRE Medium

Obtain fast and accurate results with a chromogenic medium designed for screening clinical samples for the presence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE).

Spectra UTI Medium

Obtain fast and accurate results with a chromogenic medium designed for screening clinical samples for the presence of organisms commonly associated with urinary pathogens.

PathoDX Strep Grouping Kit

Utilize PathoDX latex agglutination test designed to identify beta-hemolytic streptococci of Lancefield Groups A, B, C, F and G from primary culture plates.

AnaeroPack-Anaero Anaerobic Gas Generator

Create an anaerobic atmosphere with AnaeroPack-Anaero for cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms.

Culti-Loops Escherichia coli ATCC 25922

Ready-to-use QC organisms recommended for use in performance testing of media, stains, reagents and identification kits, and for the evaluation of bacteriological procedures.

Food & beverage microbiology

Powerful workflows that protect

 

Microbiology solutions that safeguard food and beverage safety, quality, and authenticity

 

In food, beverage, and water testing, consistency is essential. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers reliable traditional and rapid microbiological methods that help ensure safety, authenticity, and quality—from environmental samples and raw materials to finished products. Backed by over a century of microbiology expertise, our solutions empower labs to act with confidence, whether using manual processes or automation. With dependable tools and expert support, we help you uphold your brand’s integrity and meet regulatory standards. 

 

Thermo Scientific food and beverage microbiology solutions are built to support routine testing, streamline workflows, and protect public health. Our broad portfolio spans pathogen detection, spoilage screening, hygiene monitoring, and authenticity verification—offering proven performance for both in-house and contract testing labs. Designed for precision and productivity, our solutions enable faster times to result, reduced product holds, and more confident decision-making. 

 

Explore our range of products, including: 

  • Culture media for high-quality microbial recovery and clear differentiation, available in prepared formats or dehydrated for flexibility. 
  • Rapid molecular methods - Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR systems, enabling fast, accurate detection of key pathogens and reducing the risk of false positives.
  • Chromogenic solutions - Thermo Scientific Precis media for easy-to-read results in workflows with minimal confirmation steps. 
  • Real-time PCR solutions for authenticity help you have confidence in your labeling and compliance with GMO screening and quantification, species identification, and ethical and religious labeling.  

 

Thermo Fisher Scientific is your partner in food safety—delivering proven solutions that help you test with confidence, release products on time, and protect the reputation of your brand. 

 

Food & beverage microbiology featured products

Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR Automation Platform

Boost your food and beverage testing productivity and performance with simple workflow and rapid setup to reduce hands-on time while increasing the accuracy of testing. 

Thermo Scientific Solutions for ISO 7704:2023-compliant testing

Funnels, membranes and medial for water testing that meets the latest ISO 7704:2023 standards.

Thermo Scientific PCR Solutions for food authenticity testing

Have confidence in the products you release with assays that offer leading sensitivity far below the required limit of detection (LOD) and a rapid time-to-result.

Thermo Scientific SureTect Brettanomyces spp. and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Multiplex PCR Assay

Designed in partnership with a leading manufacturer specifically for control programs in beverage production; this assay allows rapidly detection and differentiation of yeast spoilage organisms.

Thermo Scientific SureTect Salmonella species, Typhimurium and Enteritidis Multiplex PCR Assay

Rapidly detect Salmonella species in food and environmental sample including large sample sizes, and primary production samples (PPS).

Thermo Scientific Legionella BCYE Medium/TSA with Sheep Blood

Stay compliant, save time, and ensure accuracy with the biplate combination Legionella BCYE Medium with Cysteine and Tryptone Soya Blood Agar according to ISO 11731.

Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 5 Food Safety Real-Time PCR System

Expand your testing capabilities with this PCR high-performance benchtop platform for rapid food protection testing with the Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 5 Food Safety Real-Time PCR System. The affordable and easy-to-use system is ideal for users who need superior performance, maximum dye versatility, and security options in a real time PCR system.

Thermo Scientific Listeria Precis Methods

Expertly designed to overcome sensitivity and specificity issues without the need to carry out non-standard steps. Benefiting from singular steps for the detection and enumeration of Listeria.

Pharmaceutical microbiology

Built on quality, made for pharma. 

 

Microbiology solutions to support pharmaceutical integrity

 

You set the standard for pharmaceutical integrity—Thermo Fisher Scientific helps you reach it. Our microbiology solutions help you detect contaminants, safeguard cleanrooms, and meet strict compliance standards with confidence. Backed by a century of expertise, we support your critical quality testing—batch after batch—so you can keep operations running smoothly and deliver safe products to those who need them. 

 

Thermo Scientific microbiology solutions are designed to address the unique needs of the pharmaceutical industry. We deliver a range of validated solutions for the pharmaceutical microbiology laboratory. We understand patient safety is paramount and ensuring regulatory compliance is non-negotiable. With our commitment to bringing more to pharmaceutical microbiology - from raw materials to finished product and from environmental monitoring to microbial identification and media fills - you can confidently rely on our product quality and expertise every step of the way. 

 

Explore our range of products, including: 

  • Thermo Scientific Triple Wrap Plates which are designed for Grade A/B (ISO 5) cleanrooms, including those producing sterile pharmaceuticals
  • Cold filterable media in convenience formats such as BioProcess Containers (BPCs) and Dehydrated Culture Media (DCM) for your Aseptic Process Simulations (Media Fills) 
  • Our Thermo Scientific Oxoid peptones, available in both animal origin and animal origin free options with a range of AN/TN ratios to suit the specific needs of your process 
  • Quanti-Cult Plus quality control organisms for growth promotion testing and other QC requirements for fast and accurate identification of microbiological organisms 
  • Traditional culture media including Tryptone Soya Agar (TSA) and Fluid Thioglycollate Medium (FTM) formulated from our very own derivatives for a variety of applications 

Pharmaceutical microbiology featured products

Triple wrapped TSA contact plates with neutralizers

Triple wrapped TSA settle plates with neutralizers

Triple wrapped TSA settle plates without neutralizers

Cold Filterable Tryptone Soya Broth (Dehydrated)

Cold Filterable Tryptone Soya Broth in BPCs

Quanti-Cult Plus Staphylococcus aureus

Tryptone Soya Broth (Bottled)

Double Bagged Bottled Fluid Thioglycollate Medium (FTM)

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