A quantitative method for measuring the mass concentration of the filamentous bacterium type 021N in activated sludge using fluorescence in situ hybridization

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 100-104

  Guan, Yuntao ^a,b   Kurisu, F ^a   Satoh, H ^a   Mino, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bulking activated sludge; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Filamentous bacteria; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Image analysis; Type 021N

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PROBES; RATE CONSTANTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BULKING ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL-LASER-SCANNING-MICROSCOPY; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; MASS CONCENTRATION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; TYPE 021N;

BACTERIA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0041767524     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2003.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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