Nucleic acids as viability markers for bacteria detection using molecular tools

Future Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-64

  Cenciarini Borde, Claire ^a,b   Courtois, Sophie ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^b  

^a SUEZ Environment   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Direct viable count; Ethidium monoazide PCR; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Nucleic acid based sequence amplification; Propidium monoazide PCR; Reverse transcription PCR; Viability assessment; Viable but nonculturable

Indexed keywords

AZIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; ETHIDIUM AZIDE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NALIDIXIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; PROTEIN TUFA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DETERMINATION; FLOTATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEATING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 61749094058     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460913.4.1.45     Document Type: Review

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