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The use of computerized television morphodensitometry in the study of microbial antagonism

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Computerized television morphodensitometry has been applied for the first time to evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the inhibitory effects associated with microbial antagonism. It is shown that the use of CTM for this purpose can add to the existing knowledge about the inhibitory potentials of biologically active substances which microbial antagonists produce, in particular by demonstrating that when no growth of bacterial test cultures exposed to an antagonist is detectable visually there may still be some growth in the form of L transformation, and by enabling this growth to be quantified.

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  1. Institute for Research in Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene and Ecology, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow

    I. B. Pavlova, I. M. Manokhina, T. G. Putina, A. V. Zhukotskii & E. M. Kogan

  2. N. F. Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow

    I. B. Pavlova, I. M. Manokhina, T. G. Putina, A. V. Zhukotskii & E. M. Kogan

  3. Institute for Physicochemical Medicine, Russian Ministry of Health, Moscow

    I. B. Pavlova, I. M. Manokhina, T. G. Putina, A. V. Zhukotskii & E. M. Kogan

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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 118, No 7, pp. 63–66, July, 1994

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Pavlova, I.B., Manokhina, I.M., Putina, T.G. et al. The use of computerized television morphodensitometry in the study of microbial antagonism. Bull Exp Biol Med 118, 747–750 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02444375

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