Open AccessON A STANDARD SYSTEM OF BACTERIOLOGICAL DILUTIONS
Author(s) -
W. F. Wells
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.12.956
Subject(s) - serial dilution , scale (ratio) , standard system , medicine , computer science , statistics , mathematics , pathology , engineering , geography , cartography , alternative medicine , construction engineering
Proper bacteriological dilutions are necessary for correct interpretations. The system here proposed adopts the dilution scale for its standards. On a consistent system of laboratory technique, including logical methods of computing results and a natural scale of interpretation, depends the real practicability of bacteriological standards.