Drug Resistance

New drug resistance study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Leuven

Published in Biotech Business Week, January 12th, 2009

"Tissue banks culture tissue specimens to confirm the absence of viable micro-organisms after decontamination with antibiotics. It is possible that antibiotic residues attached to decontaminated tissue are introduced into enrichment culture media," scientists in Louvain, Belgium report.

"These could have an inhibitory effect on the culture results and generate false-negative results. Our aim was to detect bacteriostasis in Wilkins-Chalgren broth inoculated with bone and tendon remnants. These remnants had been soaked in a solution containing gentamicin as part of the tissue-processing procedure. We used the United States Pharmacopeia method for bacteriostasis testing...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2009-01-12)

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