Replicate plating: Does it increase reliability?

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 75-78

  Wille, K K ^a   Vowels, B R ^b   Foglia, A N ^b   Berge, C A ^a   Schnell, B M ^a   Briese, F W ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS;

AEROBIC ORGANISMS; ANAEROBIC ORGANISMS; ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECTS; BACTERIAL COLONIES; CLINICAL STUDY; COLONY COUNTS; COMMON SOURCE; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; INCUBATION TIME; STANDARD PROCEDURES;

PLATING;

ERYTHROMYCIN; PLACEBO;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FORMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0029819007     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.1996.tb00034.x     Document Type: Article

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