Issue 8, 2014
From the journal:

Analytical Methods

Correlating biological methods to assess Escherichia coli bacteria viability in silica gels†

M. Blondeau,ab   R. Brayner,c   F. Guyotd  and  T. Coradin*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7574, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France

b CNRS, UMR 7574, Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
E-mail: thibaud.coradin@upmc.fr
Fax: +33-144274769
Tel: +33-144274018

c Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Interfaces, Traitements, Organisation et Dynamique des Systèmes (ITODYS), UMR 7086, CNRS, 15 rue Jean de Baïf, F-75205 Paris, France

d Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés (IMPMC), UMR 7590, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, 140 Rue de Lourmel, Paris, France

Abstract

The viability of Escherichia coli bacteria entrapped in silica gels can be monitored using the Alamar Blue assay and ATP-metry, two complementary methods that correlate with the traditional plate count technique while avoiding its current limitations related to cell growth conditions.

Graphical abstract: Correlating biological methods to assess Escherichia coli bacteria viability in silica gels

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4AY00111G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Jan 2014
Accepted
20 Feb 2014
First published
20 Feb 2014

Anal. Methods, 2014,6, 2429-2431

Permissions

Request permissions

Correlating biological methods to assess Escherichia coli bacteria viability in silica gels

M. Blondeau, R. Brayner, F. Guyot and T. Coradin, Anal. Methods, 2014, 6, 2429 DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00111G

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements