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Improved fast gas chromatography for FAME analysis of bacteria
1ARS, SASL, US Department of Agriculture, Building 001 Room 140 BARC-West, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA. buyerj@ba.ars.usda.gov
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|May 7, 2003
Abstract:
Bacteria are frequently identified by fatty acid analysis. We previously reported on methods to speed up sample preparation and gas chromatography, resulting in greatly improved speed and throughput [J. Microbiol. Methods 51 (2002) 209]. In this paper, we demonstrate that further reductions in chromatographic retention times are readily achieved, leading to faster identification of bacteria.