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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2000
Stephen C. Wardlaw, Lyme, CT (US);
Robert A. Levine, Guilford, CT (US);
Wardlaw Partners LP, Lyme, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for determining the effects of a growth-altering agent on one or more microbial colonies is provided. The method utilizes a growth-altering agent incorporated into at least a portion of a growth medium, and includes the steps of: (a) incubating the colony-forming units in a manner likely to cause the colony-forming units to replicate into microbial colonies; (b) inoculating the growth medium with an inoculum having one or more viable colony-forming units; (c) quantifying one or more characteristics of one or more individual microbial colonies exposed to the growth-altering agent; and (d) evaluating the quantified characteristics to determine the effects of the growth-altering agent on the individual microbial colonies.