title: [Effect of Pseudomonas aeruginosa melanin on antibiotic activity].
abstract: The properties of microbial melanines are very diverse. Melanine of P. aeruginosa is little studied. The pigment was isolated from a strain of P. aeruginosa possessing all characteristic properties of the species. Interaction of P. aeruginosa melanine with various antibiotics was determined by the method of serial dilutions in beaf-peptone broth, using Staph. aureus 209 as a test-microbe, which was added to the medium in an amount of 10(6) cells to each tube. It was found that P. aeruginosa melanine differed from DOPA-melanine in a concentration of 1 mg/ml and did not change the activity of penicillin, tetracycline, oleandomycin, kanamycin and gentamicin with respect to Staph. aureus.
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D008543:Melanins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D008543:Melanins
vernacular_title: Vliianie melanina Pseudomonas aeruginosa na aktivnost' antibiotikov.