Is Urografin density gradient centrifugation suitable to separate nonculturable cells from Escherichia coli populations?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-257

  Arana, Inés ^a   Orruño, Maite ^a   Seco, Carolina ^a   Muela, Alicia ^a   Barcina, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Density gradient centrifugation; Escherichia coli; Nonculturable subpopulation; Urografin

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38649100304     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-007-9198-7     Document Type: Article

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