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A method of the selective isolation and enumeration of marine Vibrionaceae

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A noninhibitory medium and GasPack anaerobic culture system were employed for the selective enumeration and isolation of Vibrionaceae in seawater and marine sediments.

Vibrio counts obtained by the new method for seawater and sediment samples were compared with vibrio numbers in the heterotrophic bacterial population appearing on a medium routinely employed in the laboratory for such counts. The ratio of the former to the latter counts ranged from 0.5 to 1.3, the average being 0.96. The seawater and sediment bacteria that grew and produced visible colonies on the medium under anaerobic conditions for 3 days at 20°C were almost exclusively vibrios.

From the results reported here it is concluded that most of the vibrios present in seawater and sediment samples can be recovered by the new method developed in this study.

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    Usio Simidu & Kumiko Tsukamoto

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Simidu, U., Tsukamoto, K. A method of the selective isolation and enumeration of marine Vibrionaceae. Microb Ecol 6, 181–184 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02010557

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