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Standardisation of Potato Slopes for Bacteriological Tests

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IT is common to find differences in the growth of sub-cultures of the same bacterium on potato slopes, and it also frequently happens that there is a percentage of unsatisfactory slopes in a batch of potato medium after sterilization. Possibly our experience in trying to standardize this medium for work in this laboratory may be of use to other microbiologists.

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  1. Department of General Microbiology, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts

    D. WARD CUTLER & MABEL DUNKLEY

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CUTLER, D., DUNKLEY, M. Standardisation of Potato Slopes for Bacteriological Tests. Nature 140, 1015–1016 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401015c0

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