colony count has a valence consolidated in time

English to Russian Medical Medical: Pharmaceuticals

These methods are in general non-quantitative (PCR) or semi-quantitative (real-time PCR), meaning that their results cannot be compared with those of a colony count where an exact enumeration of the micro-organisms present in the sample is requested, but even if colony count has a valence consolidated in time this dogma may not be verified for bacteria which have a tendency to clump (mycobacteria) or are organised in chains or in clusters (streptococci, staphylococci), therefore an accurate standardisation of the semi-quantitative methods may give results of comparable reliability.