Table III

Incubation Times To Determine Visual Colony Level

#Micro-OrganismVisual Colony Detection After x Hours on RSTMVisual Colony After 5 Days
1Corynebacterium afermentans88YES
2Penicillium spec.40YES
3Clostridium sporogenes27YES
4Bacillus pumilus12YES
5Bacillus clausii34YES
6Bacillus licheniformis16YES
7Bacillus sphaericus30YES
8Bacillus idriensis17YES
9Bacillus subtilis15YES
10Propionibacterium acnes165 = 7 daysNO
11Candida albicans46YES
12Kocuria spec.58YES
13Staphylococcus warneri25YES
14Staphylococcus capitis28YES
15Staphylococcus epidermidis35YES
16Aspergillus brasiliensis62YES
17Kocuria rhizophila56YES
18Acinetobacter lwoffii50YES
19Staphylococcus aureus20YES
20Pseudomonas aeruginosa18YES
21Escherichia coli12YES
22Stenotrophomonas maltophila27YES
Total visual colony/micro-colony after 5 days95.5% appear by visual colony detection