METHOD FOR QUICK GROWTH, DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OR COUNTING OF MICROCOLONIES OF MICROORGANISMS AT EARLY STAGE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC C12Q1/04 C12Q1/06 C12Q1/08 

FIELD: biotechnologies.

SUBSTANCE: invention pertains to the method for quick growth, detection and identification or counting of microcolonies of microorganisms at early stage. The described method includes the following stages: obtaining the container with medium with porous element located above or under the top surface of the medium, note that the medium has nutritious substances for quick growth of microcolonies of microorganisms and porous element has pores from 1000 to 107 Da; pouring the liquid sample without serial dilution into container to the area above porous element; capturing the microorganisms in porous element or at the medium above porous element; incubation of container for the time sufficient for quick growth of microcolony at an early stage; transfer of porous element and any medium above it from container to the secondary medium for evaluation, detection and identification of microorganisms; and microcolonies research relatively the growth, detection, identification or counting of microorganisms. The said method for growth, detection and identification or counting of microorganisms takes not more than approximately six hours.

EFFECT: invention allows more quickly, efficiently and less expensively indentifying the total number of revivable microcolonies of microorganisms, their identifying and distinguishing.

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