"Agar" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A complex sulfated polymer of galactose units, extracted from Gelidium cartilagineum, Gracilaria confervoides, and related red algae. It is used as a gel in the preparation of solid culture media for microorganisms, as a bulk laxative, in making emulsions, and as a supporting medium for immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis.
| Descriptor ID |
D000362
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D09.698.360.041
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Agar" by people in Profiles.
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Understanding the significance of microbiota recovered from health care surfaces. Am J Infect Control. 2024 02; 52(2):220-224.
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The Integrity of Heme Is Essential for Reproducible Detection of Metronidazole-Resistant Clostridioides difficile by Agar Dilution Susceptibility Tests. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 08 18; 59(9):e0058521.
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A successful introduction to a non-expert setting of the thin-layer agar Colour Test as an indirect phenotypic drug susceptibility test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar; 104:19-26.
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E-test versus agar dilution for antibiotic susceptibility testing of Helicobacter pylori: a comparison study. BMC Res Notes. 2020 Jan 10; 13(1):22.
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Spatially Constrained Growth Enhances Conversional Meltdown. Biophys J. 2016 Jun 21; 110(12):2800-2808.
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A novel method for imaging the pharmacological effects of antibiotic treatment on Clostridium difficile. Anaerobe. 2016 Aug; 40:10-4.
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Genetic drift opposes mutualism during spatial population expansion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 21; 111(3):1037-42.
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Maintaining and shipping Helicobacter pylori on agar stabs. Helicobacter. 2011 Jun; 16(3):252-3.
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Selection of brain metastasis-initiating breast cancer cells determined by growth on hard agar. Am J Pathol. 2011 May; 178(5):2357-66.
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Gilvimarinus chinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an agar-digesting marine bacterium within the class Gammaproteobacteria isolated from coastal seawater in Qingdao, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2009 Dec; 59(Pt 12):2987-90.