Hey Scientists,
when working with antibiotics one needs to determine the MIC (=minimum inhibitory concentration) which is the lowest concentration that is sufficient to inhibit bacterial growth. The Broth Microdilution assay is the most commonly used assay to determine the compound concentration.
Cheers
Henrik
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Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nprot.2007.521
Article: https://microbeonline.com/minimum-inhibitory-concentration-and-minimum-bactericidal-concentration-mbc/
Time Codes:
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Antibiotics
0:55 MIC (Minimum Inhibitory Concentration)
1:43 Broth Microdilution assay
4:32 Outro
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