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Phil Geis

Chapter Methodology of siderophores

- have seen this assay work well for bacteria nd fungal siderophores.

Salma Mukhtar

You can also use SideroTec Kit for this purpose.

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Dear Phil Geis and Salma Mukhtar, thanks for your help!

Ghada A. Mohammad

I have the same question, so did you get the kit which salma mukhtar mentioned it?

No, I couldn’t manage to obtain the kit, skipped the experiment for now.

Yaseerah Shakhun

Have you managed to do the test without CAS ? I need to do that too actually

Kieran Walshe

The kit is called SideroTec-Total and is available from Accuplex Diagnostics