Abstract
Agar plating media containing solely activated sludge extracts yielded, in general, higher viable counts of activated sludge bacteria than any other culture medium tested. Activated sludge extracts made from different treatment plants varied in efficacy in evoking maximal viable counts. Frequently, homologous plating, i.e., plating inocula of activated sludges on extracts made from the same activated sludges, tended to yield lower counts than the heterologous platings tried in this investigation. The counts obtained by homologous plating of activated sludge were not significantly lower and sometimes were even significantly higher than the counts obtained on standard Nutrient Agar, which had been found by previous workers to be a good medium for counting activated sludge bacteria. The higher counts obtained with activated sludge extracts set objectives for formulating reproducible or defined culture media for the enumeration of activated sludge bacteria.
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