Applicability of solid-phase cytometry and epifluorescence microscopy for rapid assessment of the microbiological quality of dialysis water

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3640-3645

  Riepl, Michael ^a   Schauer, Sonja ^a   Knetsch, Sonja ^a   Holzhammer, Elisabeth ^a   Farnleitner, Andreas H ^b   Sommer, Regina ^a   Kirschner, Alexander K T ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

bacterial numbers; ChemScan; cultivation; total direct count; total viable count

Indexed keywords

DIALYSIS FLUID; DRINKING WATER; ENDOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMETRY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PLATE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE CYTOMETRY; TOTAL DIRECT COUNT; TOTAL VIABLE COUNT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 80155172558     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr471     Document Type: Article

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