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Hi there. I am involved in bioburden testing and grow fungi on SDA agar. I am required to count the fungi however sometimes the colonies grow over each other or there is just a white carpet of fungi where I can't pinpoint where the colony started or how many there are. The colonies must be grown for seven days. If any one has any advise I would be grateful.  I do have some photos on my phone but can't figure out how to upload them.

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Think we discssued this on another forum.   You, can use surfactant supplementation to inhibit colony size and can count at earlier time points, marking colony foci.   Think you are workmin g with A. brasiliensis 16404 - that grows well enough at 3-4 days to coount. 

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