If the compound you are testing is bacteriocidal, you will not be able to recover bacteria from the zone of inhibition. If the compound is only bacteriostatic, you should be able to recover bacteria...
It is the area on an agar plate where growth of a control organism is prevented by an antibiotic usually placed on the agar surface. If the test organism is susceptable to the antibiotic, it will not...
A larger zone of inhibition means that the applied agent has either inhibited or killed the organisms that were spread on the plate and that those organisms are susceptible to that agent. In other...
The size of the zone of inhibition is dependent on the diffusion rate of the antibiotic, the degree of sensitivity of the microorganism, and the growth rate of the bacterium.