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Automation of Antimicrobial Activity Screening

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Author(s)

Samuel P. Forry, Meggan C. Madonna, Daneli Lopez-Perez, Nancy J. Lin, Madeleine D. Pasco

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Manual and automated methods were compared for routine screening of compounds for antimicrobial activity. Automation generally accelerated assays and required less user intervention while producing comparable results. Automated protocols were validated for planktonic, biofilm, and agar cultures of the oral microbe Streptococcus mutans that is commonly associated with dental caries. Toxicity assays for the known antimicrobial compound cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) were validated against planktonic, biofilm forming, and 24 h biofilm culture conditions, and several commonly reported toxicity/antimicrobial activity measures were evaluated: the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50), the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). Using automated methods, three halide salts of cetylpyridinium (CPC, CPB, CPI) were rapidly screened with no detectable effect on antimicrobial activity.
Citation
Journal of Microbial Biotechnology
Volume
6
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

Antimicrobial activity, automation, biofilm, toxicity, microbial growth
Bioscience and Health

Citation

Forry, S. , Madonna, M. , Lopez-Perez, D. , Lin, N. and Pasco, M. (2016), Automation of Antimicrobial Activity Screening, Journal of Microbial Biotechnology, [online], https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-016-0191-2 (Accessed October 4, 2025)

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Created March 12, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018
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