Quantification of mycoplasmas in broth medium with sybr green-I and flow cytometry

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1 P.447-888, 2006, Pages 492-497

  Assunção, Patrícia ^a   Rosales, Ruben S ^a   Rifatbegović, Maid ^c   Antunes, Nuno T ^a   De La Fe, Christian ^a   Ruiz De Galarreta, Carlos M ^b   Poveda, José B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Salud Las Remudas   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

CFU; Enumeration; Flow Cytometry; Mycoplasma; Sybr green I

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMA BOVIS; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM SUBSP. CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM SUBSP. CAPRIPNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA PUTREFACIENS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 32944472128     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1812     Document Type: Article

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