They studied H. pylori
bacteria in a culture dish and compared the effect of only the antibiotic metronidazole against the bacteria versus the prodrug system with metronidazole and carbon monoxide combined.
Not exact matches
Traditional techniques for identifying microbes rely on growing them
in Petri
dishes, but gut
bacteria are particularly tricky to
culture.
Kass developed the midstream urine test (still used when you pee
in a cup) and set a numerical cutoff for the number of
bacteria in normal urine: not more than 100,000 colony - forming units (cell clusters on a
culture dish) per milliliter of urine.
Your
culture dishes could be infected with Mycoplasma, tiny
bacteria that thrive
in cell
culture environments.
Eating fermented or
cultured foods such as kefir (a Turkish milk drink), tamari (a dark, smoky Japanese soy sauce), kimchi (a Korean vegetable
dish) and miso (a thick Japanese condiment) promotes the growth of healthful
bacteria in our intestines, said Laura Knoff, a licensed nutritionist
in Oakland, Calif..