Total and viable Legionella pneumophila cells in hot and natural waters as measured by immunofluorescence-based assays and solid-phase cytometry

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6225-6232

  Parthuisot, N ^a,b   Binet, M ^c   Touron Bodilis, A ^c   Pougnard, C ^c   Lebaron, P ^a,b   Baudart, J ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CELLULAR ESTERASE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COOLING TOWER WATER; CYTOMETRY; DOMESTIC HOT WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER SAMPLES; HIGH-FREQUENCY MONITORING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NATURAL WATER SAMPLES; NATURAL WATERS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SOLID-PHASE; STANDARD PLATE COUNT; THERMAL SPRING WATER; VIABLE BUT NON-CULTURABLE; VIABLE COUNT; WATER SAMPLES; WATER SYSTEM;

ASSAYS; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; GROUNDWATER; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; COOLING; DETECTION METHOD; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; FRESHWATER; MONITORING; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPRING WATER; THERMAL SPRING; VIABILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING;

BACTERIAL LOAD; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 80052710460     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00393-11     Document Type: Article

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