Sentence examples for antibiotic diffusion from inspiring English sources
Additionally, DNase type I was incorporated into the formulations as a "smart" component, since the enzyme could help to decrease the viscoelasticity found in the lungs of CF patients and improves the antibiotic diffusion.
This matrix limits antibiotic diffusion.
In vivo, low drug levels in target tissues are a consequence of extensive tissue necrosis, leading to poor antibiotic diffusion and a sepsis-related increase of the volume of distribution.
Although not completely understood, the tolerance to antibiotic treatments is thought to arise from a combination of limited antibiotic diffusion through the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), decreased growth rate of biofilm cells, and increased expression of antibiotic tolerance genes in biofilm cells (Costerton et al. 1999).
Synchrotron radiation UV fluorescence microscopy is a new tool for assessment of antibiotic diffusion in the endocarditis vegetation bacterial masses.
This is a matter of concern, because poor antibiotic diffusion in vegetation bacterial masses may be a risk factor for treatment failure.
Normally, the release of drug from bone cement is controlled by surface phenomena and antibiotics diffusion within ALBC, leading to a biphasic elution curve: a transient initial release peak is followed by a long-term low release [ 7, 8].
Susceptibility was determined by antibiotic disk diffusion on Iso-Sensitest agar (Oxoid, Basingstoke, UK) in accordance with the recommendations of the Swedish Reference Group for Antibiotics (SRGA)[22], using E. coli ATCC 25922 as a reference strain (as in all assessments).
The proposed assay utilizes the modified version of the antibiotic disc diffusion assay ("Kirby-Bauer" assay) [ 6, 7].
17 Antibiotic disk diffusion tests were performed with 0.5 McFarland standard inoculum on Mueller Hinton agar (bioMerieux).
Methicillin and vancomycin were used to test for resistance in Staphylococcus spp. by antibiotic disc diffusion method (S. aureus MRSA ATCC QC 43300).
