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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2000, p. 453-454, Vol. 66, No. 1
0099-2240/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Multiregional Evaluation of the SimPlate Heterotrophic Plate Count Method Compared to the Standard Plate Count Agar Pour Plate Method in Water

R. Wayne Jackson,1,* Karen Osborne,1 Gary Barnes,1 Carol Jolliff,2 Dianna Zamani,3 Bruce Roll,4 Amy Stillings,4 David Herzog,4 Shelly Cannon,5 and Scott Loveland5

Cobb County---Marietta Water Authority, Acworth, Georgia 301011; Clinical Laboratories of San Bernardino 2, Research and Development, Lompoc, California 934362; Indiana Department of Health, Indianapolis, Indiana 462023; Upper Guadalupe River Authority, Kerrville, Texas 780285; and Portland Water District, Standish, Maine 040844

Received 4 June 1999/Accepted 22 October 1999

A new SimPlate heterotrophic plate count (HPC) method (IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, Maine) was compared with the pour plate method at 35°C for 48 h. Six laboratories tested a total of 632 water samples. The SimPlate HPC method was found to be equivalent to the pour plate method by regression analysis (r = 0.95; y = 0.99X + 0.06).

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Cobb County Marietta Water, 3728 Mars Hill Rd., Acworth, GA 30101. Phone: (770) 974-4286. Fax: (770) 975-7011.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2000, p. 453-454, Vol. 66, No. 1
0099-2240/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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