title: A new antimicrobial susceptibility testing method of Escherichia coli against ampicillin by MSPQC.
abstract: A new antimicrobial susceptibility testing method by multi-channel series piezoelectric quartz crystal (MSPQC) was proposed. This method was used to test susceptibility of clinical Escherichia coli isolates against ampicillin. Both the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and interpretive categorization of clinical E. coli isolates were determined by proposed method. Comparing tests were run at the same time by the agar dilution method and the disk diffusion method. The experimental results showed that MSPQC method had a good agreement with the reference methods. Compared with those methods, the MSPQC method is simple, rapid, and convenient to perform. It can offer both a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and an interpretive category result.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China. fengjiao863@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Fengjiao
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000667:Ampicillin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003470:Culture Media; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011791:Quartz
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D003470:Culture Media; D011791:Quartz; D000667:Ampicillin