Building a morbidostat: An automated continuous-culture device for studying bacterial drug resistance under dynamically sustained drug inhibition

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 555-567

  Toprak, Erdal ^a,b   Veres, Adrian ^a   Yildiz, Sadik ^b   Pedraza, Juan M ^c   Chait, Remy ^a   Paulsson, Johan ^a,d   Kishony, Roy ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY DEVICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CULTURE; MORBIDOSTAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84875138391     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.021     Document Type: Article

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