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From: Quantitative and Fast Sterility Assurance Testing of Surfaces by Enumeration of Germinable Endospores

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Recovery of endospores on stainless steel coupon surface using EGA (solid square, solid line, n = 180) and TSA HPC (open square, dashed line, n = 240) on a log-log plot. (a) Recovered germinable endospores were plotted against inoculated germinable endospores; recovered culturable endospores were plotted against inoculated culturable endospores. (b) Recovered germinable and culturable endospores were both plotted against inoculated phase-bright endospores. Error bars indicate the standard deviation on quintuplicate measurements.

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