Why the RPMI 1640 is recommended to be used as medium in Broth Microdilution assay?

20 March 2017 1 5K Report

What is the rationale behind this? In my case, I am going to use the assay for yeast cell, but I wonder that could I use YPD instead of RPMI 1640 as the medium?

Sayan Bhattacharyya

RPMI is a standard medium and all reference tests are done using this

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