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Plating Methods Fail to Detect Pathogenic Enterobacteria in Cannabis?

Medicinal Genomics

The list of problems with culture-based microbial testing methods continues to grow. Aeromonas hydrophila , and Rahnella aquatilis failed to grow at 36°C on two different plating media (3M RAC and EB Petrifilms ) but successfully grew on these media at 30°C. Conversely, qPCR detected all 4 organisms.

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