A simple and fast method for determining colony forming units

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 275-278

  Sieuwerts, S ^a,b,c   De Bok, F A M ^a,b   Mols, E ^d   De Vos, W M ^b,c   Van Hylckama Vlieg, J E T ^a,b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Biologic   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colony forming units; Escherichia coli; Faster enumeration; Lactic acid bacteria; Plating; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

LABORATORIES; LACTIC ACID; PLATING; YEAST;

AGAR PLATES; BACTERIAL CULTURES; COLONY FORMING UNITS; FAST ENUMERATION; FAST METHODS; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; MICRO-ORGANISMS; MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; SIMPLE METHOD;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DROPS; LACTIC ACID;

AGAR; BACTERIUM; COLONY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LABORATORY METHOD; YEAST;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; PLATING MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 52449085232     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2008.02417.x     Document Type: Article

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