Creating a colony-forming unit commonly starts with adding around 15 ml of molten agar to around 1 ml of bacterial culture in ...

Automated image analysis for colony counting in microbiology ... involved developing a new device and method for counting CFUs on agar plates, which included various image processing techniques ...

Brugger is hardly alone: if you want to know how many bacteria or viruses you have, the standard method is to plate serial dilutions and count the resulting colonies or plaques. While some scientists ...