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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Main Authors: K. Michael Martini, Satya Spandana Boddu, Ilya Nemenman, Nic M. Vega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-09-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03946-23