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Fluorophores as visualization aides in agar growth media

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A survey of 26 fluorophores revealed 5 which were non-inhibitory toStaphylococcus aureus andEscherichia coli and produced low background and high colony fluorescence.

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Lepp, C.A., Nowlan, E.D., Mason, R.D. et al. Fluorophores as visualization aides in agar growth media. Experientia 35, 868–869 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01955117

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