Design and validation of a novel quantitative method for rapid bacterial enumeration using programmed stage movement scanning electron microscopy

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 544-550

  Sanders, David L ^a   Bond, Peter ^b   Moate, Roy ^b   Steer, Jane A ^c  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial adhesion; Bacterial count; Hernia; Mesh; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84868571286     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.09.027     Document Type: Article

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