SERS-based antibiotic susceptibility testing: Towards point-of-care clinical diagnosis

NE Dina, MA Tahir, SZ Bajwa, I Amin, VK Valev… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging antibiotic resistant bacteria constitute one of the biggest threats to public health.
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is highly promising for detecting such bacteria …

Flow cytometry: principles, applications and recent advances

SM Manohar, P Shah, A Nair - Bioanalysis, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Flow cytometry (FCM) is a sophisticated technique that works on the principle of light
scattering and fluorescence emission by the specific fluorescent probe-labeled cells as they …

Strategies for culture of 'unculturable'bacteria

SR Vartoukian, RM Palmer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Molecular ecology methods are now well established for the culture-independent
characterization of complex bacterial communities associated with various environmental …

Diagnosing Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: A review of current methods and novel approaches

M Bateman, R Oladele, JK Kolls - Medical mycology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pneumocystis jirovecii can cause life-threatening pneumonia in immunocompromised
patients. Traditional diagnostic testing has relied on staining and direct visualization of the …

[HTML][HTML] Current and emerging techniques for antibiotic susceptibility tests

K Syal, M Mo, H Yu, R Iriya, W Jing, S Guodong… - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens are a worldwide burden. Serious
bacterial infection-related complications, such as sepsis, affect over a million people every …

Biosynthesis and characterization of sophorolipid biosurfactant by Candida spp.: application as food emulsifier and antibacterial agent

VK Gaur, RK Regar, N Dhiman, K Gautam… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biosurfactants from the yeast strains Candida albicans SC5314 and Candida glabrata
CBS138 were isolated and characterized. Surface tension of the cell-free broth was reduced …

Single-cell microbiology: tools, technologies, and applications

BF Brehm-Stecher, EA Johnson - Microbiology and molecular …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The field of microbiology has traditionally been concerned with and focused on studies at
the population level. Information on how cells respond to their environment, interact with …

Functional single-cell analyses: flow cytometry and cell sorting of microbial populations and communities

S Müller, G Nebe-von-Caron - FEMS Microbiology reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The still poorly explored world of microbial functioning is about to be uncovered by a
combined application of old and new technologies. Bacteria, especially, are still in the dark …

Application of flow cytometry to industrial microbial bioprocesses

M Díaz, M Herrero, LA García, C Quirós - Biochemical engineering journal, 2010 - Elsevier
Flow cytometry (FC) is a powerful technique for the rapid analysis of single cells in a mixture,
by means of light-scattering and fluorescence measurements. In biotechnology, the power of …

Antifungal susceptibility testing: practical aspects and current challenges

JH Rex, MA Pfaller, TJ Walsh… - Clinical microbiology …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Development of standardized antifungal susceptibility testing methods has been the focus of
intensive research for the last 15 years. Reference methods for yeasts (NCCLS M27-A) and …