Variations in the fluorescence intensity of intact DAPI-stained bacteria and their implications for rapid bacterial quantification

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 283-287

  Ross, J ^a   Boon, P I ^b   Sharma, R ^a   Beckett, R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

'CURRENT; BACTERIAL BIOMASS; BACTERIAL CELLS; BACTERIAL QUANTIFICATIONS; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; INSTRUMENTAL APPROACH; SEDIMENTATION FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY; QUANTIFICATION TECHNIQUE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0029661670     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.1996.tb01162.x     Document Type: Article

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