Microbial Counter

Precise colony enumeration and identification of bacterial pathogens are fundamental in today’s clinical and microbiological studies. Research involving microorganisms such as bacteria often entails accurate colony counting and detailed assessment of the pathogen in theory. While manual cell counting remains a typical practice in laboratories, implementing it is challenging for high-throughput procedures due to its inconsistent results and low speed. Automated colony counting has been of rising interest in the past decade as it transformed the process of manual colony enumeration from tedious to more reliable and consistent. The principal drive of leading companies in biotechnology as Logos Biosystems is keeping up with the advances in microbiological research, facilitating its conduction, ensuring its accuracy, and maintaining its reliability.

Logos Biosystems’ innovative machine QUANTOM Tx™️ is an automated fluorescence-stained microbial cell counter encompassing automated fluorescence imaging and analysis of bacterial pathogens. As opposed to the time-consuming manual counting, QUANTOM Tx™️ delivers speedy counts performed in 30 seconds per sample.

The manual counting of bacterial colony-forming units (CFUs) is a standard practice in microbiological research. It is carried by aliquoting a small amount of bacterial liquid culture followed by plating out multiple sequential dilutions onto Petri dishes containing culture medium. Once the incubation is fulfilled in appropriate conditions for the tested microorganism, the colonies are enumerated to obtain the CFU number. Although manual counting is a classic way of measuring colony-forming units CFUs, it can also be automatically counted. The major limitation of CFU is that it can only count cultuble populations.https://www.wisbiomed.com/content/quantom-microbial-automated-counter-lb-q10001