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. 1988 Aug;54(8):2069–2072. doi: 10.1128/aem.54.8.2069-2072.1988

Averaging of TNTC counts.

C N Haas 1, B Heller 1
PMCID: PMC202804  PMID: 3178211

Abstract

When plate count methods are used for microbial enumeration, if too-numerous-to-count results occur, they are commonly discarded. In this paper, a method for consideration of such results in computation of an average microbial density is developed, and its use is illustrated by example.

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