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In vitro comparison of agar and microbroth dilution methods for determination of MICs for Mycoplasma hominis
Nicholaus J Hilliard1, Lynn B Duffy, Donna M Crabb
1Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, WP 230, 619 19th St S. Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|December 14, 2004
Abstract:
Ten replicates of three Mycoplasma hominis strains were tested by microbroth and agar dilution against levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, erythromycin, tetracycline, and clindamycin. Both methods provide reproducible results. Agar dilution tends to yield higher MIC values for some drugs.
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