Exploring the frontier between life and death in Escherichia coli: Evaluation of different viability markers in live and heat- or UV-killed cells

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 755-768

  Villarino, Andrea ^a   Bouvet, Odile M M ^a   Regnault, Beatrice ^a   Martin Delautre, Sylvie ^a   Grimont, Patrick A D ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial death; Escherichia coli K 12; Viability; Viable but nonculturable

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; ESTERASE; GLUCOSE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEAT TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RNA PROBE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033694533     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(00)01141-4     Document Type: Article

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