Design of a large-scale femtoliter droplet array for single-cell analysis of drug-tolerant and drug-resistant bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Iino, Ryota ^a,b   Matsumoto, Yoshimi ^c   Nishino, Kunihiko ^c   Yamaguchi, Akihito ^c   Noji, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drug efflux; Drug resistance; Drug tolerance; Microdevice; Persister; Single cell analysis; Transporter

Indexed keywords

CARBENICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMTOLITER DROPLET ARRAY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84885397221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00300     Document Type: Article

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