Lucia Bonadonna

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Do you have in your country a regulation on sewage sludge in agriculture?

If in your country a regulation on sewage sludge for agriculture exists, please could me specify which microbiological parameters and limit values have been established? Thank you very much in advance

12 December 2019 6,420 3 View

Is it possible to calculate the number of cells constituting a Colony forming Unit? Does a simple method exist for this calculation?

It is very difficult to obtain a Colony Forming Unit by a single cell. I would like to know if it is possible to verify the presence of different cells from different bacteria.

03 March 2018 7,392 6 View

Do you know if there is a cultivation method for Methylocella silvestris?

M. silvestris is an acidophilic aerobic facultative methanotroph. It lives in soils but is difficult to select this species among the other soil bacteria.

07 July 2014 563 1 View

Do you know if the infective dose for some species of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (M. intracellulare, M. chelonae, etc.) was determined?

Mycobacteria are opportunistic pathogens. Some cases of pulmonary mycobacteriosis were recently notified in some hospitals where immunodepressed subjects were present. It could be important to get...

05 May 2014 304 9 View

Could somebody suggest a procedure for favoring the development of spores rather than that of hyphae?

We should separate the two structures and do not know a valid procedure for dividing them after the colony growth.

09 September 2012 1,555 46 View