An automated system for rapid non-destructive enumeration of growing microbes.

<h4>Background</h4>The power and simplicity of visual colony counting have made it the mainstay of microbiological analysis for more than 130 years. A disadvantage of the method is the long time required to generate visible colonies from cells in a sample. New rapid testing technologies...

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Main Authors: Roanna London, Julie Schwedock, Andrew Sage, Heather Valley, Jamie Meadows, Michael Waddington, Don Straus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20062794/pdf/?tool=EBI