MICROORGANISM INSPECTION APPARATUS AND MICROORGANISM INSPECTION CHIP USED FOR THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microorganism inspection apparatus capable of improving handleability of a trace amount of stain solution to be packaged in a microorganism inspection chip, and to provide the microorganism inspection chip.SOLUTION: A microorganism inspection chip 10 includes: a specimen container 151; a food residue removing part 160; a whole-microorganism dyeing container 152 for storing a whole-microorganism stain solution 1522; a dead microorganism dyeing container 153 for storing a dead microorganism stain solution; a microorganism detecting passage 173; and a detection solution disposal container 156. The whole-microorganism dyeing container 152 and the dead microorganism dyeing container 153 are containers with hydrophobic surfaces; the whole-microorganism stain solution 1522 is held on a whole-microorganism stain solution holding carrier 1521 acting as hydrophilic porous carrier and packaged in the whole-microorganism dyeing container 152; and the dead microorganism stain solution is held on a dead microorganism stain solution holding carrier 1531 acting as a hydrophilic porous carrier and packaged in the dead microorganism dyeing container 153.