A flow cytometric method for viability assessment of Staphylococcus aureus and Burkholderia cepacia in mixed culture

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 81 A, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1055-1066

  Rüger, Marc ^a   Bensch, Gerald ^b   Tüngler, Ralf ^a   Reichl, Udo ^a,c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia; Cystic fibrosis; Flow cytometry; Gram staining; Interspecies effects; Membrane integrity; Mixed communities; QT RFLP; Staphylococcus aureus; Viability analysis

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SYBR GREEN I; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EVALUATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROPIDIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 84869740683     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22219     Document Type: Article

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