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. 1997 May;41(5):1170–1172. doi: 10.1128/aac.41.5.1170

Postantibiotic effect assessments for antibiotics exhibiting a wide range of bactericidal activities by using a modified total-cell-counting method.

R C Li 1, S W Lee 1
PMCID: PMC163874  PMID: 9145893

Abstract

We recently described a total-cell-counting method for postantibiotic effect (PAE) assessments that performs well with weakly bactericidal antibiotics. This note presents a modified method for the study of PAE with extended capability to cover a broad range of bactericidal activities.

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