Mixed Culture Test
Assay for the differential analysis of adhesion, proliferation and antimicrobial effectiveness of material surfaces against mixtures of different bacteria
Clinical infections often consist of more than one strain of bacteria. Therefore, a test setup that demonstrates antimicrobial effectiveness against a combination of different bacteria provides more detailed and convincing information.
Conventional methods only use a defined bacterial strain to analyze the adhesion or antimicrobial material behavior. The interactions of different bacterial species that come into contact with a material together are not taken into account in these conventional test methods. The special feature of this test procedure is the simultaneous assessment of the differential analysis of the adhesion and proliferation of germ mixtures as well as the antimicrobial effectiveness of the test material against microbial contamination.
This test method allows variable adaptation to specific customer and application requirements:
– Adjustment of the composition of the bacteria in the test
– Use of single or multiple antibiotic-resistant strains
– any ratio of the bacteria used
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