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TY - JOUR
T1 - Recovery of a bacterial sub-population from sewage using immunofluorescent flow cytometry and cell sorting
AU - Porter, Jonathan
AU - Robinson, Joan
AU - Pickup, Roger
AU - Edwards, Clive
PY - 1995/11/1
Y1 - 1995/11/1
N2 - The effectiveness of immunofluorescence flow cytometry and cell sorting to detect, quantify and separate indigenous bacterial populations present in low concentrations in sewage outflow was investigated. Preparatory experiments for targeted recovery revealed indigenous, immunoglobulin-G-binding particles present at low levels in sewage outflow samples taken from Coniston Water. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting of this population was employed to enrich for these particles, which were confirmed as bacterial cells. This cell population comprised approximately 23% of the total plate count on MacConkey agar before cell sorting, rising to approximately 95% after sorting. These results corresponded to cell densities of less than 5% of the total plate count on R2A agar. Taxonomic tests suggested the bacterium to be Ochrobactrum anthropi.
AB - The effectiveness of immunofluorescence flow cytometry and cell sorting to detect, quantify and separate indigenous bacterial populations present in low concentrations in sewage outflow was investigated. Preparatory experiments for targeted recovery revealed indigenous, immunoglobulin-G-binding particles present at low levels in sewage outflow samples taken from Coniston Water. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting of this population was employed to enrich for these particles, which were confirmed as bacterial cells. This cell population comprised approximately 23% of the total plate count on MacConkey agar before cell sorting, rising to approximately 95% after sorting. These results corresponded to cell densities of less than 5% of the total plate count on R2A agar. Taxonomic tests suggested the bacterium to be Ochrobactrum anthropi.
KW - Cell sorting
KW - Flow cytometry
KW - Ochrobactrum anthropi
U2 - 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00371-B
DO - 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00371-B
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0028826315
VL - 133
SP - 195
EP - 199
JO - FEMS Microbiology Letters
JF - FEMS Microbiology Letters
SN - 0378-1097
IS - 1-2
ER -