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Title: CFU calculation
Description: it's a practical bacteriology section on "colony forming unit" calculation with full explanation.
Description: it's a practical bacteriology section on "colony forming unit" calculation with full explanation.
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colony-forming unit (CFU or cfu) is a measure of viable bacterial or fungal cells
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For convenience the results are
given as CFU/mL (colony-forming units per milliliter) for liquids, and CFU/g (colonyforming units per gram) for solids
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Example:
Calculate the number of bacteria (CFU) per milliliter or gram of sample by dividing the
number of colonies by the dilution factor The number of colonies per ml reported should
reflect the precision of the method and should not include more than two significant
figures
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of colonies x dilution factor) / volume of culture plate
For example, suppose the plate of the 10^6 dilution yielded a count of 130 colonies
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3 × 10^8 or 130,000,000
Title: CFU calculation
Description: it's a practical bacteriology section on "colony forming unit" calculation with full explanation.
Description: it's a practical bacteriology section on "colony forming unit" calculation with full explanation.