Rapid method for testing drug-susceptibility of Mycobacteria ssp. and gram-positive bacteria using rhodamine 123 and fluorescein diacetate

Herve Bercovier; Murray Resnick; Daniel Kornitzer; Louis Levy

doi:10.1016/0167-7012(87)90034-0

Rapid method for testing drug-susceptibility of Mycobacteria ssp. and gram-positive bacteria using rhodamine 123 and fluorescein diacetate

Herve Bercovier^*, Murray Resnick, Daniel Kornitzer, Louis Levy

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Abstract

Employing the fluorescent dyes rhodamine 123 and fluorescein diacetate, the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis BCG to rifampicin was measured by spectrofluorometry after 24 hours, and that of Staphylococcus aureus to penicillin G was measured after one hour.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-142
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Microbiological Methods
Volume	7
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7012(87)90034-0
State	Published - 1 Dec 1987

Keywords

Drug-susceptibility
Fluorescent probes
Mycobacterium spp

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