The use of spiral plating and microscopic colony counting for the rapid quantitation of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 293-296

  Smith, W L ^a   McGarvey, K L ^a   Cullor, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

M. paratuberculosis; Microscopic colonial morphology; Middlebrook agar; Mycobacteria; Rapid quantitation; Spiral plating

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; PLATING;

AGAR PLATES; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; INCUBATION TIME; M PARATUBERCULOSIS; MICROSCOPIC COLONIAL MORPHOLOGY; MIDDLEBROOK AGAR; MYCOBACTERIA; PARATUBERCULOSIS; RAPID QUANTITATION; SPIRAL PLATING;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

BACTERIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLATING MEDIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0038748077     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2003.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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