Membrane filters counting microorganisms

Microscopic inspection after the scan, to determine if a recorded fluorescent event represents a microorganism or a particle, is possible. Furthermore, SPC counts all microorganisms on the membrane filter, so that errors associated with counting microorganisms in a limited number of microscope fields and subsequent extrapolation of the counts to the total number of cells are minimized (Lemarchand et al. 2001). 

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