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ArticleBMC microbiology2010

MicroDSC study of Staphylococcus epidermidis growth.

Dragos C Zaharia, Cezar Iancu, Alexandru T Steriade, Alexandru A Muntean, Octavian Balint, Vlad T Popa, Mircea I Popa, Miron A Bogdan

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Article in BMC microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Dragos C ZahariaUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy, Carol Davila, Eroii Sanitari Bulevard 8, Bucharest, Romania.
Cezar Iancu
Alexandru T Steriade
Alexandru A Muntean
Octavian Balint
Vlad T Popa
Mircea I Popa
Miron A Bogdan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA microcalorimetric study was carried out using a Staphylococcus epidermidis population to determine the reproducibility of bacterial growth and the variability of the results within certain experimental parameters (temperature, bacterial concentration, sample thermal history). Reproducibility tests were performed as series of experiments within the same conditions using either freshly prepared populations or samples kept in cold storage. In both cases, the samples were obtained by serial dilution from a concentrated TSB bacterial inoculum incubated overnight.

resultsThe results show that experiments are fairly reproducible and that specimens can be preserved at low temperatures (1 - 2°C) at least 4 days. The thermal signal variations at different temperatures and initial bacterial concentrations obey a set of rules that we identified.

conclusionOur study adds to the accumulating data and confirms available results of isothermal microcalorimetry applications in microbiology and can be used to standardize this method for either research or clinical setting.

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CalorimetryMicrobial ViabilityStaphylococcus epidermidis

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PMID21162759
PMCPMC3018406

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