Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in ...

Automated image analysis for colony counting in microbiology is an emerging field that aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of quantifying microbial colonies. Traditional methods of ...

The first commercially available automated colony-counting system was produced in the 1970's, according to Michael Zervoudis, sales and marketing manager at Gainesville, Va.-based BioLogics. Artek ...

Colony counting is a highly variable and unreliable counting method, as it is only an estimate of the viable cells present. A colony could arise from a single cell or a thousand cells. Even ...