Agreement, precision, and accuracy of epifluorescence microscopy methods for enumeration of total bacterial numbers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1981-1991

  Seo, Eun Young ^a   Ahn, Tae Seok ^a   Zo, Young Gun ^a  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL NUMBERS; CELL SUSPENSION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LATEX BEADS; LOG-NORMAL MODEL; LOGARITHMIC SCALE; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; POLYCARBONATE FILTERS; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; STAINING METHOD;

CELL CULTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; PRECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; STAINING; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77749245791     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01724-09     Document Type: Article

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