Imaging mass spectrometry in microbiology

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 683-694

  Watrous, Jeramie D ^a   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^a,b  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 80051787832     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2634     Document Type: Article

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