Low-cost, high-throughput, automated counting of bacterial colonies

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 790-797

  Clarke, Matthew L ^a   Burton, Robert L ^b   Hill, A Nayo ^a   Litorja, Maritoni ^a   Nahm, Moon H ^b   Hwang, Jeeseong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Colony counting; Imaging; MOPA; Pneumoniae; Software; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

TETRAZOLIUM; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

AUTOMATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS;

EID: 77955186905     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20864     Document Type: Article

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