Method for microbiological analysis of liquid mediums

摘要

A method of transporting liquid samples of bacteria cultures for microbiological analysis in an automatic analysis apparatus. The culture samples are transported in a liquid stream in a conduit as samples separated by intermediate segments of a decontamination solution effective to decontaminate the conduit of bacteria in the next preceeding sample to insure freedom of decontamination from one sample to the other. The spacing of the samples includes spacing the sample from the decontamination solution with segments of an inert gas.