Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
J Microbiol Methods. 2022 Aug;199:106508. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2022.106508. Epub 2022 Jun 9.
Quantifying bacterial colony forming units is important in microbiological diagnostics. Recent progress in imaging technology allows automation of this tedious and error-prone task. We compared the accuracy of four smartphone colony counter applications conducting standardized measurements, using a self-built apparatus. One app showed high accuracy at lower colony counts.
量化细菌集落形成单位在微生物诊断中很重要。成像技术的最新进展使得这项繁琐且容易出错的任务实现了自动化。我们使用自制的设备对四种执行标准化测量的智能手机集落计数器应用程序的准确性进行了比较。一个应用程序在较低的菌落计数时显示出了较高的准确性。
