Stable isotope dilution techniques for assessing vitamin A status and bioefficacy of provitamin A carotenoids in humans. [PDF]
Vitamin A deficiency is a major global public health problem. Among the variety of techniques that are available for assessing human vitamin A status, evaluating the provitamin A nutritional values of foodstuffs and estimating human vitamin A ...
Judy D Ribaya-Mercado +19 more
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Accurate detection of oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis by use of agar dilution
Background/purpose: Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a Gram-positive coagulase-negative bacterium and is recognized as a critical pathogenic species recently.
Cheng-Yen Kao +5 more
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Comparison of Agar Dilution, Broth Dilution, Cylinder Plate and Disk Diffusion Methods for Evaluation of Anti-leishmanial Drugs on Leishmania promastigotes [PDF]
Background: Leishmaniases are a group of diseases caused by Leishmania parasites. Growing of drug unresponsiveness in leishmaniasis patients necessitates the development of new drugs and accordingly a suitable assay is needed for evaluation of any ...
T Mohammadzadeh +3 more
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Disk diffusion, agar dilution and the E-test for susceptibility testing of Corynebacterium jeikeium [PDF]
Objective: The susceptibilities to penicillin, tetracycline, erythromycin, gentamicin, vancomycin and teicoplanin of 58 strains of Corynebacterium jeikeium were assessed by disk diffusion and agar dilution reference methods.Methods: Zone sizes and ...
Pennekamp, Andreas +2 more
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(a) Dunaliella tertiolecta dilution series in cultures without predators show negative slopes due to dilution-induced lagged growth. Emiliania huxelyi suspended in artificial media devoid of inhibitors or predators in (b) 200 μL microtiter plate and (c ...
Lee Karp-Boss (648174) +13 more
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Methods for Determination of Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils In Vitro—A Review
Essential oils (EOs) have been gaining popularity in the past decades among researchers due to their potential to replace conventional chemicals used in the fight against pests, pathogenic and spoilage microbes, and oxidation processes.
Radka Hulankova
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Objective: Resistance against a wide variety of antibiotics is one of the prominent characteristics of Acinetobacter baumannii. The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vitro susceptibility testing of A.
Mojtaba Varshochi +6 more
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Nanostructure and paramagnetic centres in diamond-like carbon: Effect of Ar dilution in PECVD process [PDF]
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films were deposited utilising plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) with acetylene precursor, diluted with 0 – 45% argon.
Reynolds, AJ +13 more
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Comparison of disk diffusion, agar dilution, and broth microdiultion for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of five chitosans [PDF]
Chitosan is a polysaccharide biopolymer with excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, and low toxicity, which allows for potential wide applications.
Jiang, Lin
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MIC values obtained by serial dilution of compound 16b on a solid agar.
MIC values obtained by serial dilution of compound 16b on a solid agar.
Vilma Petrikaitė (321635) +4 more
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