Agar diffusion test
Agar diffusion test is a generic term for immunological and microbiological methods in which to be examined biological reagents diffuse into an agar medium by diffusion.
- In the analysis of antigens with antibodies of the immune diffusion test is used (see also immunoelectrophoresis ).
- In the investigation of microorganisms to inhibit the growth (antibiotics) or growth-promoting (vitamins, amino acids) acting compounds of the disk diffusion test is applied. A special application of the disk diffusion test is the Hemmhof test.
- An immunochemical test method
- Microbiological test method