Progress in understanding preferential detection of live cells using viability dyes in combination with DNA amplification

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-289

  Fittipaldi, Mariana ^a   Nocker, Andreas ^b   Codony, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethidium monoazide; Propidium monoazide; Viability PCR; Viable cell detection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA PURIFICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOACTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TURBIDITY;

BACTERIA; CELL SURVIVAL; EUKARYOTA; INTERCALATING AGENTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84867754639     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.08.007     Document Type: Review

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