Flow cytometric method for quantifying viable Mycoplasma agassizii, an agent of upper respiratory tract disease in the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-351

  Mohammadpour, H A ^a   Tracy, C R ^b   Redelman, D ^a   DuPre', S A ^a   Hunter, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

CFDA AM; Desert tortoise; Flow cytometry; Mycoplasma agassizii

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANES; ESTERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LANDFORMS; SLOW LIGHT;

ACETOXYMETHYL ESTERS; AGAR CULTURE; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; CELL COUNTING; CFDA-AM; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; NONFLUORESCENT MOLECULES; SENSITIVE FLOW; SLOW GROWTH; SMALL SIZE; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; THERAPEUTIC METHOD; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

CELL CULTURE;

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; ESTERASE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOTYPE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TURTLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CYTOPLASM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGASSIZII; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TURTLE;

UNITED STATES;

GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGASSIZII;

EID: 77949358367     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2010.02800.x     Document Type: Article

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