Detection and quantification of viable airborne bacteria and fungi using solid-phase cytometry

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 224-231

  Vanhee, Lies M E ^a   Nelis, Hans J ^a   Coenye, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; WATER;

ACCURACY; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYTOMETRY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLID; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; FUNGI; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 59849106106     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.228     Document Type: Article

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