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the loopful
noun
As much as a loop will contain
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The active cultures of the bacteria and fungi were prepared by transferring the loopful of cells from the stock culture to the conical flasks containing Mueller Hinton broth for bacteria or Sabouraud broth for fungi.
The loopful was used for DNA preparation followed by PCR detection.
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At 2½ minute interval following the incubation of the tubes, a standard loopful of the reaction mixture was transferred to 5ml of sterile nutrient broth (the recovery medium) in a tube.
At the end of the incubation period, a loopful of the culture was spread and/or streaked on GSP agar, and all agar plates were incubated at 36°C for 24 h.
On the fourth day, one loopful of the cultured medium was plated both on Salmonella-Shigella agar (Difco) and Leifson agar (Merck).
From the colonies that appeared on the plates, a loopful of cells was taken and resuspended in Lemco broth, mixed with vortexing, serial dilutions were plated onto Lemco agar supplemented with 2% sucrose and 50 µg/ml X-gal and allowed to grow for two days.
From each plate and for each drug, the putatively resistant coliform growth (i.e., a pool of the colonies grown inside the zone of inhibition or a loopful of the microbial lawn grown in proximity of the disk) were collected (n = 18,042).
For the isolation of Salmonella, 0.1 ml aliquot of homogenate of meat samples from the appropriate dilutions and a loopful of the swab specimen were directly inoculated on to MacConkey agar (Oxoid, England) and Salmonella-Shigella (Oxoid, England) agar incubated aerobically at 37 °C for 24 48 h.
For confirmation of the strains, one loopful from each agar plate was used for DNA preparation after incubation.
A loopful of the culture from the slant was subculture before each test and transferred into 100 ml of sterile Luria broth (Hi-media, Mumbai, India; Cat. No. M1245) and grown for 6 h at 37°C at 240 rpm.
For each of the test tube in the MIC determination that showed a visible growth, a loopful of the broth was inoculated on a sterile nutrient agar plates using agar streaked method.
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