antibioticsstrainsThis paper gives technical details of a disk method favoured by the authors for doing antibiotic sensitivity tests: it follows conventional lines. The test is done in a plate inoculated by flooding with a pure broth culture: the authors also grant that it can be applied to a ...
The sensitivity to antibiotics was evaluated with the use of the paper disc method on the agar base with 5% of sheep blood cells added and on Mueller-Hinton base. The paper discs were Polish-made and the results were interpreted according to the producers suggestions. The results ind...
removed strong interferences from blood constituents. Using them as the biomarkers of bacterial metabolic responses to antibiotics, the protocol reported the susceptibility profiles of tested drugs against these two bacteria acquired from patients’ blood with high specificity, sensitivity and speed. Similar...
The statistical methods and parameters commonly used to define bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics in vitro such as MIC 50, linear regression or others, usually lead to a considerable loss of information: they do not take into account the heterogeneity of the bacterial population. In contrast, ...
Bacterial infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality commonly treated with antibiotics. However, increased use of antibiotic treatments has led to the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes by horizontal gene transfer or the selection of vertically transmitted mutations. This global incre...
The following information relating to the samples was also collected: patients’ age, colony count, type(s) of identified bacterial(s) and result of the antimicrobial sensitivity test. Student's t-test was used for mean comparison. A total of 134 samples were selected for the study. The age...
OBJECTIVE To explore the correlation between bacterial resistance and antibiotic use density(AUD) in ICU so as to provide evidence for the rational use of antibiotics. METHODS The patients who enrolled the hospital from Jan 2009 to Jun 2010 were assigned to the control group,the constituent ratios...
SETTLING COLUMN TESTSETTLING TANK INLETSeventythree bacterial isolates from polluted streams as well as 157 of their heavy metaltolerant (HMtolerant) derivatives were tested for their sensitivity to ampicillin, ticarcillin, gentamicin, cephalexin, sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline and colistin. Among the ...
Chi-Hung Lin4, Po-Ren Hsueh6, Juen-Kai Wang5,7 &Yuh-Lin Wang5,8 Rapid bacterial antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) measurement are important to help reduce the widespread misuse of antibiotics and alleviate the growing drug-resistance problem...
clearly increased the MIC of ciprofloxacin from 0.5 to 8 mg/L, as well as resulting in a four- and 16-fold increase in MICs for cefotaxime and fosfomycin, respectively (Fig.1eand supplementary TableS4). While no change was observed to the other antibiotics tested (Supplementary TableS4)....