Improvements on colony morphology identification towards bacterial profiling

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 327-335

  Sousa, Ana Margarida ^a   Machado, Idalina ^a   Nicolau, Ana ^a   Pereira, Maria Olívia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bacterial profiling; Biofilms; Colony morphology; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Small colony variants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INCUBATION TIME; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROFILING; BIOFILMS; COLONY MORPHOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SMALL COLONY VARIANTS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84886436590     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.09.020     Document Type: Article

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