Appl Environ Microbiol. 1995 Aug;61(8):3158-60. doi: 10.1128/aem.61.8.3158-3160.1995.
Applied and environmental microbiology
I G Wilson
PMID: 16535113 PMCID: PMC1388567 DOI: 10.1128/aem.61.8.3158-3160.1995
An IUL Countermat automatic colony counter was used to enumerate colonies on spiral total viable count plates made with a wide variety of foods. The counter results exhibited a correlation with manual counting results similar to the reproducibility obtained with manually counted spiral plates. Use of this machine results in a large time saving compared with the conventional counting method and is recommended as a generally suitable method for counting spiral total viable count plates.