inoculum

Definitions

Examples

• “It’s very hard to sort out, but you wonder if increased inoculum of the virus is an extra factor,” he said.

• Masking and reducing the viral inoculum, getting less severe disease, resulting in more people having asymptomatic infection, is a good outcome.

• We’re putting forth a hypothesis that there’s a biological mechanism by which this could occur, where a lower viral inoculum leads to less severe illness.

• Flame the plugs, open the tubes, sterilise the platinum needle and charge it with the inoculum as in the previous cultivations.

• Sterilise the platinum loop, and add two loopfuls of diluted inoculum to tube No. 2, and mix as before.

• Add one loopful of the inoculum to tube No. 1, treating the liquefied medium as bouillon.

• Should any drops of the inoculum be forced out, they will fall on the filter paper, which should be immediately burned.

• Introduce the inoculum in the form of an emulsion by means of another pipette.