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Bead-Based Flow-Cytometric Cell Counting of Live and Dead Bacteria

Fang Ou1,2, Cushla McGoverin3,4, Joni White4,5

  • 1Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. fou521@aucklanduni.ac.nz.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|April 1, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
BacteriaBacterial cell enumerationCounting beadsDetectionFlow cytometryFluorescence

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