ASSAY OF ANTIBIOTICS BY TURBIDIMETRIC (OR NEPHELOMETRIC) METHOD

A large number of antibioics, namely : chlortetracycline, doxycyline, gentamicin, neomycin, streptomycin, tobramycin and the like may be assayed tubidimetrically...

Preparation of Inoculum

The method of preparation of the microbial suspensions for preparing the inoculum for the assay of various antibiotics is clearly stated . In an event...

EXAMPLES OF PHARMACEUTICAL MICROBIAL ASSAYS

The microbial assays have been effectively extended to a plethora of pharmaceutical preparations i.e., the secondary pharmaceutical products. However,...

ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR MICROBIAL ASSAYS

There are several sophisticated analytical methods that are used most abundantly for the precise quantitative methods microbial assays, such as : (a)...

RADIOENZYMATIC [TRANSFERASE] ASSAYS

The ‘radioenzymatic assays’ have gained their abundant acceptance and recognition for the assay of aminoglycoside antibiotics e.g., amikacin, gentamicin,...

Rapid-Reliable-Reproducible Microbial Assay Methods

It is worthwhile to mention here that the usual ‘conventional agar-plate assays’ not only require stipulated incubation for several hours but also are...

TYPES OF MICROBIOLOGICAL (MICROBIAL) ASSAYS

There are mainly two different types of microbiological assays usually encountered bearing in mind the response of an ever-growing population of microbes...

VARIANTS IN ASSAY PROFILE

There are several well-recognized variants in assay profile for antibiotics, vitamins, and amino acids, namely : (a) Calibration of assay, (b) Precision...

MICROBIOLOGICAL (MICROBIAL) ASSAYS :ANTIBIOTICS–VITAMINS–AMINO ACIDS

INTRODUCTION There are, in fact, three most critical and highly explicite situations, wherein the absolute necessity to assay the ‘antimicrobial agents’...

Natural Killer Cells [NK Cells]

It has been amply proved and widely accepted that the body’s cell-mediated defense system usually makes use of such cells that are not essentially the...