Principle
The Etest is basically an agar diffusion method.
The Etest utilises a rectangular strip that has been impregnated with the drug to be studied. A lawn of bacteria is spread and grown on an agar plate, and the Etest strip is laid on top; the drug diffuses out into the agar, producing an exponential gradient of the drug to be tested. There is an exponential scale printed on the strip. After 24 hours of incubation, an elliptical zone of inhibition is produced and the point at which the ellipse meets the strip gives a reading for the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the drug.
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