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Concept information

Preferred term

disk diffusion antimicrobial test

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A method where a culturing surface inoculated with microbe is exposed to small disks containing known amounts of a chemical agent resulting in a zone of inhibition (usually in millimeters) of growth of the microbe corresponding to the susceptibility of the strain to the agent.

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • agar disk diffusion susceptibility test
  • Bauer-Kirby disk diffusion method
  • disk diffusion antimicrobial susceptibility test
  • disk diffusion assay
  • disk diffusion method
  • disk diffusion susceptibility test
  • disk diffusion test

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/299742

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