Maximum likelihood estimators for colony-forming units
ABSTRACT Measuring the abundance of microbes in a sample is a common procedure with a long history, but best practices are not well-conserved across microbiological fields. Serial dilution methods are commonly used to dilute bacterial cultures to produce countable numbers of colonies, and from these...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2024-09-01
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Series: | Microbiology Spectrum |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03946-23 |