Editors: | F. Kongoli, S. Buchmann, G. Imanidis, I. Karim, G. Kimura, G. Knipp, M. Makanga, N. Menshutina, P. Swaan, M. Tanner, H. Tarabishi |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2024 |
Pages: | 352 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-998384-14-3 (CD) |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
There is a well known but forgotten heat measuring apparatus, an isothermal microcalorimeter (Fast4U Calorimeter built by Calbact AG) that can be used to obtain the dynamic heat-flow produced during a bacterial infection. It allows susceptibility testing to be done in shorter time than with conventional methods.
The result of a heat-flow curve produced e.g. the one produced at the threshold level by 105 CFU one gets what otherwise uses multiple steps.
The influence of antibiotics on heat-flow curves will be shown. These modifications indicate the effect caused by the resistivity.