Microbial identification

Stead, D. E. Sellwood, J. E. Wilson, J. Viney, I. Evaluation of a commercial microbial identification system based on fatty acid profiles for rapid, accurate identification of plant pathogenic bacteria. /. Appl. Bacteriol. 1992, 72, 315-321. 

Olson, W.P., Automated Microbial Identification and Quantation, Interpharm Press, Buffalo Grove, IL, 1998. 

Personnel involved in microbial identification will require specialized training on required laboratory methods. 

Personnel involved in microbial identification will require specialized training on required laboratory methods. Additional training on the management of the environmental data collected will need to take place. 

Automated microbial identification of computer-generated probabilities of identity — genus and species... 

Trend Isolated Excursion Frequent Excursion Microbial Identification ... 

Trend Isolated Excursion Microbial Identification Frequent Excursion ... 

Novitsky, TJ. (1996). Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assays. In Automated Microbial Identification and Quantitation Technologies for the 2000s, W.P. Olson, ed. Inter-pharm Press, Buffalo Grove, IL, 277-298. 

Cultures and serologic assays are usually used for microbial identification in infectious diseases. However, fresh tissue is not always available, and culturing fastidious pathogens can be difficult and may take weeks or... 

Apply nucleic acid based techniques for microbial identification and quantification. 

To delay therapy until laboratory results are available is inappropriate in serious bacterial infections, but specimens for possible microbial identification must be obtained before drugs are administered. The answer is (B). 

Currently, advanced molecular methods represent an invaluable tool in the study of food ecosystems and the strains responsible of fermentation processes. At the same time, especially in industrial or applied microbiology, phenotypic tests, which were used widely in the past for microbial identification, are still being considered for the characterization of strain metabolic properties, growth performance, resistance to industrial processes, and shelf life. However, due to their poor reproducibility and low discriminatory power, phenotypic methods have been almost abandoned for identification purposes. Their low taxonomic resolution often leads to differentiation only at the genus level, and they require a labor-intensive approach. On the contrary, genotypic techniques provide a more robust classification and identification, and their costs, over the years, have been decreasing. 

In contrast to a Sanger-type spectrum which would have 19 peaks, only four, lighter mass fragments are observed. The tradeofi) however, is that sequence information is lost. Despite this loss in sequence information, microbial identification based upon base-specific fragmentation patterns appears extremely promising. While successes have been reported [66-70], to our knowledge, ours is the first work to perform systematic calculations... 

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