Rapid assessment of viable but nonculturable Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 in commercial formulations using flow cytometry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Majeed, Muhammed ^a,b   Majeed, Shaheen ^b   Nagabhushanam, Kalyanam ^c   Punnapuzha, Ardra ^a   Philip, Sheena ^a   Mundkur, Lakshmi ^a  

^a Sami Labs Limited   (India)

^b SABINSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c SABINSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS COAGULANS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; ORANGE JUICE; PH; PLATE COUNT; SPOROGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE; HEAT; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWEET ORANGE;

BACILLUS COAGULANS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSPECIES INFANTIS; CITRUS SINENSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85042555191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192836     Document Type: Article

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