Automated counting of bacterial colony forming units on agar plates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Brugger, Silvio D ^a   Baumberger, Christian ^b   Jost, Marcel ^b   Jenni, Werner ^b   Brugger, Urs ^b   Mühlemann, Kathrin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOCOLATE AGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGAR;

ACCURACY; AGAR MEDIUM; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; AUTOMATED COLONY COUNTER; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM COLONY; BRAIN HEART INFUSION AGAR PLATE; CHOCOLATE AGAR PLATE; CLASSIFIER; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COLUMBIA BLOOD SHEEP AGAR PLATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GOLD STANDARD; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM; BAYES THEOREM; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CYTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGAR; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIA; BAYES THEOREM; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84858627076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033695     Document Type: Article

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