Medium for the Enumeration and Isolation of Bacteria from a Swine Waste Digester

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A habitat-simulating medium was developed for the enumeration and isolation of bacteria from a swine waste digester. A roll tube medium with growth factors for strict anaerobes from previously studied anaerobic ecosystems was used to evaluate the effects of deletion, addition, or level of digester fluid, digester fluid treated with acid or base, rumen fluid, fecal extract, anaerobic pit extract, tissue extract, carbohydrates, peptones, short-chain fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, N and P sources, reducing and solidifying agents, buffers, and gases on colony counts. Decreasing the agar concentration from 2.5 to 1.0% increased the counts twofold. Blending increased the counts 1.7-fold. With a medium (174) containing digester fluid, peptones, minerals, cysteine, sodium carbonate, and agar, colony counts were 60% of the microscopic count and improved yields 2.5 to 20 times those obtained with media previously used for digesters or developed for other anaerobic ecosystems. Colony counts continued to increase for up to 4 weeks of incubation. Medium 174 permits the enumeration of total, methanogenic, and, with deletion of reducing agent, aerotolerant bacteria. The results suggest that the predominant bacteria grow slowly and have requirements different from those of bacteria from other ecosystems.

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