Open AccessImprovement of Microbial Assays of Vitamins
Author(s) -
Edward J. Heed
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0003-6919
DOI - 10.1128/am.24.2.286-287.1972
Subject(s) - pulmonary surfactant , turbidity , suspension (topology) , chemistry , chromatography , standard curve , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , biochemistry , mathematics , ecology , homotopy , pure mathematics
A method for the improvement of microbial assays of vitamins, which involves the addition of a surfactant to the incubated test, was developed. This surfactant tends to eliminate bacterial clumping, giving a uniform suspension of single cells, thereby making the turbidity readings less erratic and the actual assay standard curves more closely related to the desired theoretical curve.
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