Applicability of LIVE/DEAD baclight stain with glutaraldehyde fixation for the measurement of bacterial cell concentration and viability in the air

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1755-1767

  Murata, Kotaro ^a   Zhang, Daizhou ^a  

^a PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF KUMAMOTO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baclight stain; Bacterial abundance; Bio sampler; Epifluorescent microscopy; Viability

Indexed keywords

BACLIGHT STAIN; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BIO-SAMPLER; CELL CONCENTRATIONS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; VIABILITY;

AIR QUALITY; BACTERIA; CELLS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE;

CYTOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; AIR SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROORGANISM; VIABILITY; WEATHER;

EID: 84888400807     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.10.0293     Document Type: Article

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