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Article: Findings from S.A. Burgess and co-authors broaden understanding of applied microbiology.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 8, 2009
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In this recent study, researchers in Palmerston North, New Zealand conducted a study "To examine the rate and the extent of spore formation in Anoxybacillus flavithermus biofilms and to test the effect of one key variable - temperature - on spore formation. A continuous flow laboratory reactor was used to grow biofilms of the typical dairy thermophile A. flavithermus (strain CM) in skim milk."
"The reactor was inoculated with either a washed culture or a spore suspension of A. flavithermus CM, and was run over an 8 center dot 5 h period at three different temperatures of 48, 55 and 60 degrees C. Change in impedance was used to determine the cell numbers in the ...