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. 2004 Sep;70(9):5343–5348. doi: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5343-5348.2004

FIG. 1.

FIG. 1.

General pattern used to select regions of the membrane filter from which microscope fields were selected when using the subjective microscope methods for counting beads and bacteria. The innermost area represents the effective filtration area of the filter membrane. The outer area represents the area of the membrane filter on which filtered beads or bacteria were not retained.