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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Research, Technology, Methods > methodology > laboratory techniques > plate count
Preferred Term:

plate count

Definition:
The number of bacterial or fungal colonies that develop in culture media in a petri dish with a known amount of inoculum.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt-core
Broader Concept:
laboratory techniques
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • microbial enumeration
  • fungal count
  • bacterial count
  • microbial colony count
  • bacterial enumeration
  • total viable count
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/15129
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