Li R C, Lee S W, Lam J S
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1996 Jul;40(7):1751-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.40.7.1751.
To study postantibiotic effect, viable counts are routinely acquired by the pour plate technique. However, this technique is laborious and time-consuming; the required sample dilutions also cause excessive errors and material wastage. A new total cell counting technique in which a Coulter counter is used to obtain more efficient postantibiotic effect measurements has been developed.