Changes in the luminescence between dried and wet bacillus spores

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 28, 2004, Pages 5404-5409

  Kunnil, Joseph ^a   Swartz, Barry ^b   Reinisch, Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NovaSol   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PROTEINS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARDIZATION;

ABSORPTION BAND; BACTERIAL SPORES; FLUOROPHORES;

BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLASSIFICATION; DESICCATION; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; WETTABILITY;

BACILLUS; DESICCATION; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; WETTABILITY;

EID: 5444222228     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005404     Document Type: Article

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