Food Microbiology Laboratory for the Food Science Student pp 15-18 | Cite as

Enumeration of Bacteria in Broth Suspension by Spread and Pour Plating

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• Cangliang Shen
• Yifan Zhang

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First Online: 10 August 2017

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Abstract

We will practice spread plating and pour plating using 10- or 100-fold dilution technique to enumerate bacteria cells in solutions on agars.

Keywords

Spread plating Pour plating Dilution technique Escherichia coli 

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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017

Authors and Affiliations

• Cangliang Shen
  • 1
• Yifan Zhang
  • 2

1. 1.Davis College, Division of Animal and Nutritional SciencesWest Virginia UniversityMorgantownUSA
2. 2.Department of Nutrition and Food ScienceWayne State UniversityDetroitUSA