PMA-Linked Fluorescence for Rapid Detection of Viable Bacterial Endospores
TBMG-14623
09/01/2012
- Content
The most common approach for assessing the abundance of viable bacterial endospores is the culture-based plating method. However, culture-based approaches are heavily biased and oftentimes incompatible with upstream sample processing strategies, which make viable cells/spores uncultivable. This shortcoming highlights the need for rapid molecular diagnostic tools to assess more accurately the abundance of viable spacecraft-associated microbiota, perhaps most importantly bacterial endospores.
- Citation
- "PMA-Linked Fluorescence for Rapid Detection of Viable Bacterial Endospores," Mobility Engineering, September 1, 2012.