alcohol in antibiotic solutions?

[Wolfgang Schechinger]

Probably it won't volatilize right away. The alcOH rather stays in 
the medium. But apparently, it doesn't seem to matter much. 
10% EtOH did not alter growth of 3T3 fibroblasts over several days in 
my experience. Seems to be comparable with humans ;-)

Wolfgang

> From:          rodneypettway at hotmail.com ("Rodney Pettway")
> Subject:       alcohol in antibiotic solutions?
> Date:          30 Oct 2000 23:36:00 -0000
> Organization:  BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
> X-To:          <methods at net.bio.net>
> To:            methods at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk

> What happens to the alcohol that is used to dissolve some
> antibiotics (chloroamphenicol) after you add the antibiotic to your
> media?  Does it all volatilize off or what?
> 
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