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The water activity of common liquid bacteriological media
Author(s) -
Chirife J.,
Favetto G.,
Scorza O.C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1982.tb04680.x
Subject(s) - bacteria , liquid medium , liquid water , microbiology and biotechnology , environmental science , food science , biology , chemistry , chromatography , physics , thermodynamics , genetics
The water activities ( a w ) of 27 (21 different) bacteriological media were determined. It was found that a w values of most media were above the range reported in the literature as optimal for rates of growth of many bacteria.