METHOD FOR ESTIMATING GROWTH OF ORGANISM, AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING THE SAME FOR EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for estimating the growth of organisms by which it is precisely judged whether the examined environment is the one for promoting or stopping the growth of microorganisms or not, or whether the examined environment is the one for the microorganisms dying out or not, and further to provide a method for utilizing the method for evaluation of the environment.;SOLUTION: A test specimen is formed out of a covering material having a filter through which water vapor permeates but the microorganisms, natural enemies thereof and liquid water do not permeate, and contains the microorganisms, or a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a recorder or a sender of the data measured by them instead of the microorganisms inside the specimen. The test specimen is exposed to the environment to be examined, and the influence of the environment to be tested on the growth of the microorganisms is displayed by using the growth of the microorganisms in the test specimen, or the growth estimated from the measured data.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO