Micro-broth dilution method with air-dried microplate for determining MICs of clarithromycin and amoxycillin for Helicobacter pylori isolates
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 53 (5), 403-406
- https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05397-0
Abstract
MICs of clarithromycin and amoxycillin for 253 isolates of Helicobacter pylori were measured by an air-dried microplate method and compared with the results obtained by the agar plate dilution method. The air-dried microplate method is performed by coating each well of a 96-well microplate with the test antibiotic and air-drying it. There were no marked differences between the air-dried microplate method and agar plate dilution methods in the MIC(50) and MIC(90) values or MIC ranges of clarithromycin obtained for the 253 isolates of H. pylori. More specifically, the MICs of clarithromycin for 114 (45.1 %) of the 253 isolates were the same by the air-dried microplate method as the agar plate dilution method, and the differences in the MICs of clarithromycin for a further 114 isolates (45.1 %) varied within one twofold dilution. The MICs of amoxycillin by the former method were in close agreement with the MICs obtained by the latter method: MICs of amoxycillin for 199 (78.7 %) of the 253 isolates were the same by both methods, and the differences in the MICs of amoxycillin for 42 isolates (16.6 %) varied within one twofold dilution. These results indicate that the air-dried microplate method is a useful method for determination of MICs, because the results obtained were in close agreement with those obtained by the standard agar plate dilution method. The air-dried microplate method is, therefore, a convenient and reliable method for determining the MICs of clarithromycin and amoxycillin for H. pylori isolates.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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