Automated image analysis of bacterial colony growth as a tool to study individual lag time distributions of immobilized cells

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 324-334

  Guillier, L ^a,b   Pardon, P ^c   Augustin, J C ^a  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b Arilait Recherches   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial colonies; Lag time distributions; Listeria monocytogenes

Indexed keywords

AGAR MEDIUM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHEESEMAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZED CELL CULTURE; INCUBATION TIME; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGAR; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; CULTURE MEDIA; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 33645989187     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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