Background: Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacterium that forms biofilms on biotic and abiotic surfaces. Biofilm formation important for researchers because it increases the risk of food contamination in industry, pathogenicity bacteria, damages equipment. The main purpose this study was to find out antimicrobial antibiofilm properties Oliveria decumbens essential oil (Od-EO) against aur...

Seventeen lots of microtiter plates which differed in lot, batch, plastic type, or manufacturer were evaluated as solid-phase carriers in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for antibodies to measles, toxoplasma, and human gamma globulin. Most plates of polystyrene or polyvinyl chloride were found to give acceptable binding. The final choice depended on the antigen to be attached. Variations in ...

A rapid, simple, and inexpensive method for quantitation of viable mycoplasmas is described. Serial dilutions were made in sterile microtiter plates with standard microtiter equipment. The results were multiplied by a factor of 2.38 to obtain colony-forming units comparable to those obtained with the laborious glass pipette-tube dilution method.

Abstract Downscaling the anaerobic fermentation in a microtiter plate (MTP) facilitates high throughput screening (HTS) applications. This study investigates impacts of MTP configurations (scale, shaking, and cover) on S. pastorianus beer compared to that shaking flask (SF) European Brewing Convention (EBC) tube regarding performances flavor attributes. The lager strains MTPs accelerated cells ...

The present study was carried out to investigate the potential of Listeria ivanovii isolates to exist as biofilm structures. The ability of Listeria ivanovii isolates to adhere to a surface was determined using a microtiter plate adherence assay whereas the role of cell surface properties in biofilm formation was assessed using the coaggregation and autoaggregation assays. Seven reference bacte...

BACKGROUND Microplate-based thrombin generation test (TGT) is widely used as clinical measure of global hemostatic potential and it becomes a useful tool for control of drug potency and quality by drug manufactures. However, the convenience of the microtiter plate technology can be deceiving: microplate assays are prone to location-based variability in different parts of the microtiter plate. ...