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. 1965 Sep;13(5):755–756. doi: 10.1128/am.13.5.755-756.1965

Microbiological Assay of Vitamin B12 in the Presence of Tetracycline

F M Poonawalla 1, M R S Iyengar 1
PMCID: PMC1058337  PMID: 5325938

Abstract

Treatment of a pharmaceutical preparation of vitamin B12 and tetracycline with an ion-exchange resin by the batch method differentially adsorbed tetracycline, making possible a statistically reproducible microbiological assay of vitamin B12 by the standard Escherichia coli plate method.

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