Physical impaction injury effects on bacterial cells during spread plating influenced by cell characteristics of the organisms

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 911-922

  Thomas, P ^a   Mujawar, M M ^a   Sekhar, A C ^a   Upreti, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bead spreading; CFU enumeration; Environmental microbiology; Food microbiology; Live dead bacterial staining; Pour plating

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; SPREADERS;

% REDUCTIONS; BACTERIAL CELLS; BEAD SPREADING; CELL SHAPES; COLONY FORMING UNITS; COLONY-FORMING UNIT ENUMERATION; LIVE-DEAD BACTERIAL STAINING; POUR PLATING; REACTION CELLS; VEGETATIVE CELLS;

PLATING;

AGAR; COLONY FOUNDING; GROWTH RATE; INJURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROTEOMICS;

ACINETOBACTER; AGAR MEDIUM; AGROBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BRACHYBACTERIUM; BREVIBACILLUS; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL SIZE; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; INOCULATION; LYSINIBACILLUS; METHYLOBACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PAENIBACILLUS; PANTOEA; PLATING MEDIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; SPHINGOMONAS; SPOTTING AND TILT SPREADING; SPREAD PLATING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; XENOPHILUS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ACINETOBACTER SP.; ACTINOBACTERIA; AGROBACTERIUM; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHYBACTERIUM; BREVIBACILLUS; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM SP.; MICROBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PAENIBACILLUS; PANTOEA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; XENOPHILUS;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84896119039     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jam.12412     Document Type: Article

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