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Ames Salmonella assay
Microbiologic test of the ability of a substance when cultured with Salmonella to mutate reporter genes.
Notes:
- the assay has been described by & credited to Bruce Ames of the University of California at Berkeley
Related
AIMS test
mutagen
General
microbiological assay (MB)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999