The importance of the viable but non-culturable state in human bacterial pathogens

The importance of the viable but non-culturable state in human bacterial pathogens

Many bacterial species have been found to exist in a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state since its discovery in 1982. VBNC cells are characterized by a loss of culturability on routine agar, which impairs their detection by conventional plate count techniques. This leads to an underestimation of...

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Main Authors: Laam eLi, Nilmini eMendis, Hana eTrigui, James D Oliver, Sebastien P Faucher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Resuscitation
Virulence
stress
Biofilm
antibiotic
human pathogens
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00258/full

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