Antibiotic susceptibility testing of Bifidobacterium thermophilum and Bifidobacterium pseudolongum strains: Broth microdilution vs. agar disc diffusion assay

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 191-195

  Domig, Konrad J ^a   Mayrhofer, Sigrid ^a   Zitz, Ulrike ^a   Mair, Christiane ^a   Petersson, Agnes ^a   Amtmann, Ernst ^a   Mayer, Helmut K ^a   Kneifel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agar disc diffusion; Antibiotic resistance; Bifidobacterium pseudolongum; Bifidobacterium thermophilum; Broth microdilution; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM PSEUDOLONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM; BROTH MICRODILUTION; DILUTION; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAT; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROBIOTICS;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM PSEUDOLONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM THERMOPHILUM;

EID: 35948937623     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2007.07.064     Document Type: Article

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