Week 3 Colony-Forming Units
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This document provides information on colony-forming units (CFUs) in microbiology, including aseptic technique and serial dilution for determining CFU/mL.
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Group Number: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Date: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Group Members: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE / DETERMINATION OF CFU/ML USING SERIAL DILUTION...
Group Number: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Date: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Group Members: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE / DETERMINATION OF CFU/ML USING SERIAL DILUTION PART 2** **Colony-Forming Units/mL (CFU/mL)** A **Colony-forming unit** (CFU) is where a colony of microbes grow on a petri dish, from one single microbe. Results of microbiological enumeration can be expressed in either CFU/g or CFU/mL. This means that cfu/g is colony-forming unit per gram and cfu/ml is colony-forming unit per milliliter. **A less than result (\
