scholarly journals The Small Membrane Filter Method of Microscopy to Diagnose Pulmonary Tuberculosis

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 2096-2099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Fennelly ◽  
Carlos Gustavo Morais ◽  
David Jamil Hadad ◽  
Solange Vinhas ◽  
Reynaldo Dietze ◽  
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1993 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEP SERRA BONVEHI ◽  
ROSSEND ESCOLÁ JORDÁ

The number of mesophilic aerobic colonies was determined in 72 samples of mono- and multifloral honey from various sources by the plate count and the membrane filter methods. The presence of motile colonies made the plate counts unreliable. The microorganism producing these colonies was identified as Bacillus alvei. Colony counts could only be carried out in 27 of the samples when using the plate count method, while with the membrane filter method the number of colonies was counted in all the samples.


1975 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Rose ◽  
Edwin E. Geldreich ◽  
Warren Litsky

1980 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 563-563
Author(s):  
E. P. MERRILL

Of 658 individual water supplies tested over an 8-year period, 69% of drilled wells, 62% of driven wells, 27% of dug wells and 32% of springs were judged acceptable on the basis of a single test for total coliforms. The acceptability standard consisted of 0 to 1 coliforms/100 ml of sample by the membrane filter method or a Most Probable Number index of less than 2.2 (presumptive and confirmed tests).


1986 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Entis ◽  
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J Allen ◽  
A Bhatnagar ◽  
A Brouwer ◽  
...  

Abstract Twenty-one laboratories participated in a collaborative study to validate a hydrophobic grid membrane filter (HGMF) method for aerobic plate count by comparing its performance against the AOAC/APHA pour plate method. Raw milk, raw poultry, whole egg powder, flours, and spices were included in the study. Counts obtained by the HGMF and pour plate methods did not differ significantly, except in the case of whole egg powder, for which the HGMF method produced significantly higher counts. The hydrophobic grid membrane filter method for aerobic plate count in foods has been adopted official first action.


1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 913-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHYLLIS ENTIS ◽  
IRINA LERNER

A study was undertaken to compare β-glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli counts produced by the ISO-GRID hydrophobic grid membrane filter method using SD-39 agar (test method) with those produced by AOAC Official Method 990.11, an existing ISO-GRID method using lactose monensin glucuronate agar and buffered MUG agar (reference method). The methods were evaluated using 21 food products, with three independent lots of five replicate samples analyzed per product by both methods. The test and reference methods were statistically equivalent for 19 of the 21 products; frozen, raw ground lamb produced significantly higher counts using the reference method, whereas counts obtained from cottage cheese were significantly higher using the SD-39 agar-based method.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. DUNLOP ◽  
S. A. McEWEN ◽  
A. H. MEEK ◽  
R. M. FRIENDSHIP ◽  
W. D. BLACK ◽  
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The objective of this study was to determine the most efficient means of sampling faeces of finisher pigs for accurate and precise farm-level estimates of antimicrobial resistance among faecal Escherichia coli. Resistance to tetracycline and gentamicin of 8250 isolates of E. coli from 55 finisher pigs on one farm was measured with a hydrophobic grid membrane filter method. The between-pig, within-pen component of variance in resistance was large (97·5%), while between-pen, within-room and between-room components were small (2·5% and 0%, respectively). Using these resistance data, the abilities of two sampling strategies to estimate prevalence were modelled with a Monte Carlo ‘bootstrap’ procedure. Compositing faecal samples from several pigs before testing produced unbiased and precise estimates of prevalence and is simpler technically than individual animal testing.


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