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  2. Minimum bactericidal concentration - Wikipedia

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    The minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) is the lowest concentration of an antibacterial agent required to kill a particular bacterium. [1] It can be determined from broth dilution minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) tests by subculturing to agar plates that do not contain the test agent.

  3. McFarland standards - Wikipedia

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    An example of such testing is antibiotic susceptibility testing by measurement of minimum inhibitory concentration which is routinely used in medical microbiology and research. If a suspension used is too heavy or too dilute, an erroneous result (either falsely resistant or falsely susceptible) for any given antimicrobial agent could occur.

  4. Impedance microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Since DT is the time needed for the bacterial concentration to grow from the initial value C 0 to C TH, highly contaminated samples are characterized by lower values of DT than samples with low bacterial concentration. Given C 1, C 2 and C 3 the bacterial concentration of three samples with C 1 > C 2 > C 3, it is DT 1 < DT 2 < DT 3.

  5. Minimum inhibitory concentration - Wikipedia

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    While the MIC is the lowest concentration of an antibacterial or antifungal agent necessary to inhibit visible growth, the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) is the minimum concentration of an antibacterial agent that results in bacterial death. It is defined by the inability to re-culture bacteria, and the closer the MIC is to the MBC ...

  6. Agar dilution - Wikipedia

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    Agar dilution is one of two methods (along with broth dilution) used by researchers to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antibiotics. It is the dilution method most frequently used to test the effectiveness of new antibiotics when a few antibiotics are tested against a large panel of different bacteria. [1]: 149 [2]

  7. Bacteriological water analysis - Wikipedia

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    Bacteriological water analysis is a method of analysing water to estimate the numbers of bacteria present and, if needed, to find out what sort of bacteria they are. It represents one aspect of water quality. It is a microbiological analytical procedure which uses samples of water and from these samples determines the concentration of bacteria ...

  8. OD600 - Wikipedia

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    Spectrophotometer for OD600 and Cell Density Measurements. OD600 (Also written as O.D. 600, D 600, o.d. 600, OD 600) is an abbreviation indicating the optical density of a sample measured at a wavelength of 600 nm in 1 cm light path (unless otherwise stated).

  9. Colony-forming unit - Wikipedia

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    In microbiology, a colony-forming unit (CFU, cfu or Cfu) is a unit which estimates the number of microbial cells (bacteria, fungi, viruses etc.) in a sample that are viable, able to multiply via binary fission under the controlled conditions. Counting with colony-forming units requires culturing the microbes and counts only viable cells, in ...