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Factors affecting the determination of respiratory activity on the basis of cyanoditolyl tetrazolium chloride reduction with membrane filtration.

B H Pyle, S C Broadaway, G A McFeters
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Deficiencies in traditional bacterial enumeration techniques which rely on colony formation have led to the use of total direct counting methods, such as the acridine orange direct count technique for the enumeration of planktonic bacteria. As total direct counts provide no information on the viability or activity of the organisms, demonstration of respiratory activity with the fluorochrome cyanoditolyl tetrazolium chloride (CTC) has been employed. We have modified this technique by performing filtration prior to CTC incubation. Cells captured on a polycarbonate membrane were incubated on absorbent pads saturated with medium containing CTC. Following counterstaining with DAPI (4(prm1),6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) total and respiring cells were enumerated by epifluorescence microscopy. Factors affecting CTC reduction by Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella typhimurium, and Escherichia coli K-12 were investigated. With K. pneumoniae, nutrient additions to the CTC medium did not increase the number of respiring cells detected. CTC reduction by all three organisms decreased in response to an increase of the pH of the CTC medium above pH 6.5. Increasing phosphate concentrations contributed to this inhibitory effect. CTC-membrane filter counts of K. pneumoniae, S. typhimurium, and E. coli K-12 and of bacteria in well water corresponded closely with plate counts (r = 0.987). The results show that careful attention should be given to the composition of CTC-containing media which are used to enumerate respiring bacteria. With an appropriate medium, reliable enumeration of respiring bacteria can be achieved within a few hours.

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Factors affecting the determination of respiratory activity on the basis of cyanoditolyl tetrazolium chloride reduction with membrane filtration.
B H Pyle, S C Broadaway, G A McFeters
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Dec 1995, 61 (12) 4304-4309; DOI:

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Factors affecting the determination of respiratory activity on the basis of cyanoditolyl tetrazolium chloride reduction with membrane filtration.
B H Pyle, S C Broadaway, G A McFeters
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