ANTIBIOTICS DISCS: Augmentin, Penicillin, Stretomycin

ANTIBIOTICS DISCS: Augmentin-Penicillin-Stretomycin, 5x cartridges of 50x discs

• These Antibiotics Discs facilitate the easy handling and dispensing of sensitivity discs.
• Three types available: Augmentin, Penicillin & Stretomycin, each sold separately and packed in 5x cartridges of 50 discs.
• Simply slip the cartridge into the ejector provided and dispense discs directly onto the agar plate.
• The cartridges have a long shelf life.

(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."Antibiotic sensitivity testing or antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics. It is used because bacteria may have resistance to some antibiotics. Sensitivity testing results can allow a clinician to change the choice of antibiotics from empiric therapy, which is when an antibiotic is selected based on clinical suspicion about the site of an infection and common causative bacteria, to directed therapy, in which the choice of antibiotic is based on knowledge of the organism and its sensitivities.[1]

Sensitivity testing usually occurs in a medical laboratory, and uses culture methods that expose bacteria to antibiotics, or genetic methods that test to see if bacteria have genes that confer resistance. Culture methods often involve measuring the diameter of areas without bacterial growth, called zones of inhibition, around paper discs containing antibiotics on agar culture dishes that have been evenly inoculated with bacteria. The minimum inhibitory concentration, which is the lowest concentration of the antibiotic that stops the growth of bacteria, can be estimated from the size of the zone of inhibition..")

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