Innovative endpoint determination system for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts
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Innovative endpoint determination system for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts.
Fungal infections and antifungal resistance are increasingly recognized. Antifungal susceptibility testing remains unstandardized, and a particularly important problem is endpoint determination. In this paper we propose the yeast metabolic reduction of the tetrazolium salt 2,3-bis(2- methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-5-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-2H-tetraz olium hydroxide (XTT) as a colorimetric endpo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0066-4804,1098-6596
DOI: 10.1128/aac.36.8.1619