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Minimum inhibitory concentration. In microbiology, the minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC) is the lowest concentration of a chemical, usually a drug, which prevents visible in vitro growth of bacteria or fungi. [1] [2] MIC testing is performed in both diagnostic [1] [2] and drug discovery laboratories.
Harvard sentences. The Harvard sentences, or Harvard lines, [1] is a collection of 720 sample phrases, divided into lists of 10, used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
Advantages. The broth microdilution method can be used to test the susceptibility of microorganisms to multiple antibiotics at once. [3] Broth microdilution is also highly accurate. The accuracy of its results are comparable to agar dilution, the gold standard of susceptibility testing. Other advantages include the commercial availability of ...
The minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) is the lowest concentration of an antibacterial agent required to kill a particular bacterium. [1] It can be determined from broth dilution minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) tests by subculturing to agar plates that do not contain the test agent. The MBC is identified by determining the lowest ...
Agar dilution is one of two methods (along with broth dilution) used by researchers to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antibiotics. It is the dilution method most frequently used to test the effectiveness of new antibiotics when a few antibiotics are tested against a large panel of different bacteria. [1] : 149 [2]
Etest is a quantitative technique for determining the antibiotic sensitivity and minimum inhibitory concentration (in μg/mL) of some bacteria including Gram-negative and Gram-positive aerobic bacteria such as Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Staphylococcus, and Enterococcus species and fastidious bacteria, such as anaerobes, N. gonorrhoeae, S. pneumoniae, Streptococcus and ...
Maximal information coefficient. In statistics, the maximal information coefficient ( MIC) is a measure of the strength of the linear or non-linear association between two variables X and Y . The MIC belongs to the maximal information-based nonparametric exploration (MINE) class of statistics. [1] In a simulation study, MIC outperformed some ...
A pistonphone is an acoustical calibrator (sound source) that uses a closed coupling volume to generate a precise sound pressure for the calibration of measurement microphones. The principle relies on a piston mechanically driven to move at a specified cyclic rate, pushing on a fixed volume of air to which the microphone under test is coupled.