Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion test of gut bacteria: Paper sheets soaked with antibiotics are placed on a petri dish. The antibiotic concentration decreases with increasing distance. The closer bacteria ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 135, No. 4 (Apr., 1977), pp. 568-576 (9 pages) The effectiveness of 13 antimicrobial agents against 51 clinical isolates of Nocardia was determined with use of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Antibiotic resistant pneumococci have been reported from all continents. Because of the importance of pneumococci in the aetiology of ...

Microbial assays are a technique to assess a compound’s potency or concentration. This is carried out by exposing microorganisms to the compound and determining its effect on them. Microbial assays ...