What is the highest acceptable limit of DMSO concentration for use in an MIC assay?

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Ravi Kant Upadhyay

It is 50-10,00 µg/ml in dimethyl sulfoxide concentration permissible in MIC assays. It depends on dose selected against infectious strain of fungi and bacteria.

Susan Boyle-Vavra

Thank you for your input,

Thank you for your answers. Do you know the DMSO MIC approximately of S aureus? This is the bacteria I am testing.