Time-suppression test using a colorimetric probe (alamarBlue) that measures bacterial metabolic activity

Biomedical Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 171-173

  Komatsu, Mitsutaka ^a   Tajima, Yutaka ^a,b   Ito, Teruyo ^a   Yamashiro, Yuichiro ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL KILLING; CELL VIABILITY; COLORIMETRY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME SUPPRESSION TEST;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLORIMETRY; OXAZINES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XANTHENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 48249110727     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.29.171     Document Type: Article

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