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Effect of Antibiotics on Varied Density of Septicemia Causing Bacteria of Silkworm

Abstract

Antibiotics are widely used in sericulture industry for mitigating losses caused by bacterial septicemia among microbial disease. The use of standardized antibiotic concentration for different densities of bacteria by Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method determines minimum inhibitory concentration for septicemia bacteria. Inferences obtained by impregnating standard antibiotics like Ampicillin (25 mg), Gentamycin (30 mg) and Kanamycin (30 mg) through disk diffusion method shows that maximum inhibition in Gentamycin (30 mg), intermediate inhibition zone in Kanamycin (30 mg) and lowest or no inhibition zone for â-lactamic Ampicillin (25 mg) are shown. Insights into standard antibiotic susceptibility concentration of septicemia agents augment silk production by maximizing utilization of food and lowers development of antibiotic resistant septicemia bacteria. Advance investigation into an area under disk diffusion yields Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) for human infection from these opportunistic pathogen

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