Quantification of relative proportions of intact cells in microbiological samples using the example of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-78

  Agullo Barcelo M ^a   Moss, J A ^b   Green, J ^c   Gillespie, S ^c   Codony, F ^d   Lucena, F ^a   Nocker, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH WATER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; Live dead distinction; Propidium monoazide; Viability

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM OOCYSTS; FAST ANALYSIS; INTACT CELLS; LIVE CELL; LIVE-DEAD DISTINCTION; OOCYSTS; PROPIDIUM; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; VIABILITY;

DNA;

AMPLIFICATION; APOPTOSIS; DNA; MEMBRANE; STORAGE; VIABILITY;

AMPLICON; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HEAT TREATMENT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES CULTIVATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; LIVE-DEAD DISTINCTION; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; VIABILITY;

AZIDES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OOCYSTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIDIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84890212606     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12157     Document Type: Article

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