I use this method to enumerate the effect of different culture conditions on
the recovery of injured Salmonella spp.
I do the counts in 96-well plates and use a software program to give me the
MPN and the confidence intervals.
"Michael Witty" <mw132 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.SGI.3.96.1000915162730.5786164A-100000 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk...
> Does this method still get used? It is where a serial dilution of
> bacteria is made and the point at which growth stops happening is compared
> to statistical table to estimate a concentration of cfu/ml.
>> If anyone has a manual with the relevant statistical tables I would be
> glad to know about it. Mike.
>
