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Live-Cell Imaging of the Life Cycle of Bacterial Predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus using Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy
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Rapid isolation of host-independent Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
Megan A Ferguson1, Jaclyn L Schmitt, Anil R Sindhurakar
1Department of Chemistry, SUNY New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY, 12561, USA.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|April 16, 2008
Abstract:
A new method of isolating host-independent Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus has been developed. Filtered suspensions of host-dependent cells are dropped in small volumes onto 0.2 microm membranes laid on rich media agar. Significant growth is observed within 1-2 days; these cells were confirmed to be B. bacteriovorus using microscopic observations and PCR.
