Monitoring the wet-heat inactivation dynamics of single spores of Bacillus species by using Raman tweezers, differential interference contrast microscopy, and nucleic acid dye fluorescence microscopy

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4754-4769

  Zhang, Pengfei ^a   Kong, Lingbo ^a   Wang, Guiwen ^a   Setlow, Peter ^b   Li, Yong Qing ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID DENATURATION; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SPECIES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; DIPICOLINIC ACIDS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; INNER MEMBRANES; LOW PERMEABILITY;

BACILLI; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMOLECULES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEAT TREATMENT; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE;

CALCIUM; CHELATING AGENT; DIPICOLINIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; PICOLINIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID; SPORE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DENATURATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CALCIUM; CHELATING AGENTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79961066642     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00194-11     Document Type: Article

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