%0 Journal Article %A Araujo, Ricardo %A Rodrigues, Acacio G. %A Pina-Vaz, Cidalia %T A fast, practical and reproducible procedure for the standardization of the cell density of an Aspergillus suspension %D 2004 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 53 %N 8 %P 783-786 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.05425-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X The progressive increase of invasive disease and reports of resistance among Aspergillus species emphasizes the need for reproducible antifungal susceptibility testing. Inoculum standardization is a crucial step in such procedures. The objective of this study was to develop a fast and precise method of evaluating the cell density of an Aspergillus spore suspension, as an alternative to spectrometric readings or cell-counting with a haemocytometer. Densimat (bioMérieux) is a portable photometer that shows a good correlation with spectrometric readings and can advantageously replace the cumbersome, time-consuming method of cell-counting. Thus, Densimat brings significant improvement to the reproducibility and feasibility of standardization of a fungal inoculum. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.05425-0