Single-cell microbiology: Tools, technologies, and applications

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 538-559

  Brehm Stecher, Byron F ^a,c   Johnson, Eric A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Applied Biosystems Framingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CYTOMETRY; FERMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICELLAR ELECTROKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL KINETICS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNGI; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY; PROTOZOA;

EID: 4544370545     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.3.538-559.2004     Document Type: Review

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