Estimation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae inoculum size by rate of tetrazolium reduction
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 92-94
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.4.1.92-94.1976
Abstract
The rate of appearance of red-colored formazan indicating reduction of 2,3,5,-triphenyltetrazolium chloride by Mycoplasma pneumoniae was dependent on the inoculum size. The test permits estimation of M. pneumoniae cells in preparations that cannot be counted by dilution methods.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: