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Jessica N Brandwein1, Kelly C Rice2.
Abstract
This chapter describes the use of antibiotic kill curves to examine the tolerance of Staphylococcus aureus to any antibiotic of interest. This is done by treating cultures with a super-minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antibiotic and measuring viability over time by colony-forming units (CFUs). Kill curves provide a unique insight into S. aureus antibiotic tolerance and death patterns that may not be clear from other experiments, such as traditional MIC or Kirby-Bauer assays.Entities:
Keywords: Antibiotic tolerance; CFU; Cell death; MIC; Persistence
Year: 2021 PMID: 34264460 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1550-8_7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745