For several years, automated colony counting systems have been available with varying
degrees of automation. Ever more sophisticated instruments are now increasingly used in …

Traditional microbiological techniques have been used for well over a century as the basis
for contamination testing of pharmaceutical products and processes. With more recent focus …

The use of alternative microbiological methods has been encouraged by the United States
Pharmacopeia (USP) guidelines, since they offer several advantages over the reference …

Microbial contamination may compromise the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical
products. Microbial enumeration tests are required by most of the pharmacopeial compendia …

The manual process of counting microbial colonies on agar plates can be time-consuming
as it is generally performed by scientists using a light box and pen method. The results can …

Counting of microbial colonies is a common technique employed in research and
diagnostics. To simplify this tedious and time-consuming process, automated systems have …

Microbiological laboratories remain reliant on the accurate determination of the number of
colony forming units (CFUs) on growth media; this is notwithstanding advances with rapid …

To evaluate comparative efficiency of traditional vs automated colony counting methods,
cultures of Escherichia coli (ATCC 25945), Staphylococcus epidermidis (ATCC 12225) …

Abstract Using United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF) general method<
1223> guidance, the Soleris® automated system and reagents (Nonfermenting Total Viable …

“Microbiology Topics” discusses various topics in microbiology of practical use in validation
and compliance. We intend this column to be a useful resource for daily work applications …