A simplified new assay for assessment of fungal cell damage with the tetrazolium dye, (2, 3)-bis-(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulphenyl)-(2h)-tetrazolium-5-carboxanilide (xtt)

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1153-1156

  Meshulam, Tova ^a   Levitz, Stuart M ^a   Christin, Laurent ^a   Diamond, Richard D ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRAZOLIUM;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VIABILITY; COLORIMETRY; FUNGUS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYCOSIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NEUTROPHILS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 0029125121     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/172.4.1153     Document Type: Article

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