SOME FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR VARIATION IN COUNTING SOMATIC CELLS ON PRESCOTT-BREED SMEARS OF MILK1
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Association for Food Protection in Journal of Milk and Food Technology
- Vol. 29 (1) , 5-9
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0022-2747-29.1.5
Abstract
By means of direct microscopic observation of cells in stained smears and projection of a series of color transparencies, differences in criteria used by individuals for identification of cells to be counted in Prescott-Breed smears were discovered and described. Extensive studies revealed a unique pattern of cell distribution within smears which can materially affect the outcome of a cell count depending upon the area selected for cell counting. Among other factors, variation in size of the smear was found to have a marked affect upon resultant sample count.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Variation of Estimated Numbers of Milk Somatic Cells Stained with Wright's Stain or Pyronin Y – Methyl Green StainJournal of Dairy Science, 1963
- The Enumeration of Bacteria by the Microscopic MethodJournal of Bacteriology, 1940