Observing Growth and Division of Large Numbers of Individual Bacteria by Image Analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 675-678

  Elfwing, A ^a   LeMarc, Y ^b   Baranyi, J ^b   Ballagi, A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PHOTOINTERPRETATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

FLOW CHAMBERS; PROLIFERATION; SINGLE CELLS;

BACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CAMERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW RATE; FORCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; KINETICS; LISTERIA INNOCUA; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LISTERIA; MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA INNOCUA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 2342575559     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.675-678.2004     Document Type: Article

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