Nonculturable microorganisms in the environment /

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Imprint:Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2000.
Description:xi, 354 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Microbial ecology.
Microbiology -- Cultures and culture media.
Microbial ecology.
Microbiology -- Cultures and culture media.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4345322
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Other authors / contributors:Colwell, Rita R., 1934-
Grimes, D. Jay (Darrell Jay), 1944-
ISBN:1555811965
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Semantics and Strategies
  • Morphological Changes Leading to the Nonculturable State
  • Size Matters: Dwarf Cells in Soil and Subsurface Terrestrial Environments
  • Membrane Bioenergetics in Reference to Marine Bacterial Culturability
  • Diversity of Uncultured Microorganisms in the Environment
  • Molecular Genetic Methods for Detection of Viable but Nonculturable Organisms
  • Environmental Parameters Associated with the Viable but Nonculturable State
  • Starved and Nonculturable Microorganisms in Biofilms
  • Phenotyic Plasticity in Bacterial Biofilms as it Affects Issues of Viability and Culturability
  • 0. Survival, Dormancy and Nonculturable Cells in Extreme Deep-Sea Environments
  • 1. Bacterial Viruses and Hosts: Influence of Culturable State
  • 2. The Importance of Viable but Nonculturable Bacteria in Biogeochemistry
  • 3. Viable but Nonculturable Cells in Plant-Associated Bacterial Populations
  • 4. Implications of the Viable but Nonculturable State in Risk Assessment Based on Field Testing for Genetically Engineered Microorganisms
  • 5. Chemical Disinfection and Injury of Bacteria in Water
  • 6. The Public Health Significance of Viable but Nonculturable Bacteria
  • 7. Epidemiological Significance of Viable but Nonculturable Microorganisms
  • 8. Bacterial Death Revisited