title: Comparative analyses of viable bacterial counts in foods and seawater under microplate based liquid- and conventional agar plate cultivation: increased culturability of marine bacteria under liquid cultivation.
abstract: Bacterial counts under liquid cultivation using 96-well microplates were performed. The counts under liquid and under solid cultivation were equivalent in foods, although the counts under liquid cultivation exceeded those under solid cultivation in seawater, suggesting that some bacteria in seawater were viable but did not form detectable colonies. Phylogenetic analysis of bacteria obtained under liquid cultivation was also performed.
authors: Department of Food Science, Faculty of Applied Life Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences (NUPALS), Niigata, Japan. shige@nupals.ac.jp
authors: Toru
authors: T
authors: Shigematsu
authors: Shigeaki
authors: S
authors: Ueno
authors: Yasuharu
authors: Y
authors: Tsuchida
authors: Mayumi
authors: M
authors: Hayashi
authors: Hiroko
authors: H
authors: Okonogi
authors: Haruhiko
authors: H
authors: Masaki
authors: Tomoyuki
authors: T
authors: Fujii
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000379:methods; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D005516:Food Microbiology; D050296:Microbial Viability; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*