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These methods were compared to direct microscopic enumeration and plate counts during a bacterial transport experiment performed in an intact sediment core and designed to simulate the field experiment.
Besides microscopic enumeration and morphological examination, cellular biomarkers appear promising.
Spearman Rank Correlation was used to evaluate the correlation between microscopic enumeration and the real-time PCR output (Instat v.3).
All spiking experiments were controlled by three methods: using the plate count method (PCM), microscopic enumeration and a qPCR step to check for possible discrepancies between the different enumeration techniques.
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The mice were sacrificed at 2, 4, and 6 weeks post inoculation and evaluated for P. murina infection by RT-qPCR and microscopic enumeration, as described above.
To determine the relationship between quantitation of P. carinii by real-time PCR and by microscopic enumeration, results were analyzed by Spearman Rank Correlation (Table 2).
Their lungs were removed for quantification by microscopic enumeration of organism nuclei expressed as log nuclei/mL (5 ) and real-time PCR analysis under aseptic conditions.
Confluence was estimated by phase microscopy (Olympus CK-40; Olympus Cor., Tokyo, Japan) based on the occupied surface of the tissue culture flask, and MSC density was determined by microscopic enumeration with a hematocytometer (Marienfeld, Germany).
Differences in bacterial size and the presence of different contaminating matrices (e.g. feed particles, soil) may also interfere in microscopic enumeration (Veal et al 2000).
The inoculum size was adjusted to 1-5 × 10 spores/ml by microscopic enumeration with a cell-counting hematocytometer.
The consideration of a sample as 'true UTI' was arrived at in a two-stage screening process involving microscopic enumeration of urine leucocytes followed by quantitative urine culture.
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