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Static magnetic field increases the sensitivity of Salmonella to gentamicin

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The present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of static magnetic field (SMF) on antibiotic sensitivity of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Hadar. We have evaluated antibiotic susceptibility using the disc diffusion method following exposure to SMF. Our results showed that exposure to a 200-mT SMF static magnetic field increased the efficiency (p < 0.01) of gentamicin against Salmonella Hadar but did not affect the diameter of the inhibition zone of some other antibiotics actives on Enterobacteria: penicillin, oxacillin, cephalotin, neomycin, amikacin, tetracyclin, erythromycin, spiramycin, chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid and vancomycin.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology. The author and the co-author contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Bizerte, Tunisia

    Jihen Tagourti, Alya El May, Amine Aloui, Abdelwaheb Chatti & Ahmed Landoulsi

  2. Laboratoire de Contrôle des Eaux et Denrées Alimentaires, Centre National des Salmonella, Shigella et Vibrio, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

    Ridha Ben Aissa

  3. Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, 7021, Jarzouna, Tunisia

    Jihen Tagourti

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Tagourti, J., El May, A., Aloui, A. et al. Static magnetic field increases the sensitivity of Salmonella to gentamicin. Ann Microbiol 60, 519–522 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-010-0081-9

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