METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATED DETERMINATION OF MICROORGANISM NUMBER IN MIXED CULTURES

FIELD: biotechnology, microbiology. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves sowing out samples of mixed cultures in liquid selective media, determination of cells number accumulating in media during microorganisms growth by bioluminescent method and mathematical treatment of kinetic data of the growth of individual bacterial cultures, determination of the parent concentration of microorganisms relating to different taxonomic groups. Invention allows carrying out the simultaneous identification of bacterial cells relating to different taxonomic groups and presenting in mixed cultures simultaneously, and to enhance precision in determination of cells number in the broad concentration range and to reduce the total analysis time significantly. In industry mixed cultures are used widely in different branches of food industry (dairy, meat, brewing and others) and in other biotechnological processes (biological treatment of sewage waters, bioremediation of soils, producing methane from waste in different manufactures and others). Invention can be used for differentiated determination of microorganisms number in mixed cultures that are widely distributed in nature: in air, soil, ponds, as components of natural microflora in higher organisms and among contaminants causing injury of different objects. ^ EFFECT: improved method for determination. ^ 1 tbl, 3 dwg, 5 ex