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Cellular activities in ultra-violet killed Escherichia coli
A Villarino1, O Bouvet, B Regnault
1Unité des Entérobactéries, INSERM U 389, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. avilarin@pasteur.fr
International Journal of Food Microbiology
|May 3, 2000
Abstract:
In this work we analyze the physiological state of cells after lethal-UV dose disinfection using independent metabolic markers. Through the detection of some metabolic activities we proved that cell lysis does not immediately follow death in UV-irradiated Escherichia coli K12 cells.