Current pathogen identification is routinely performed using conventional microbiological methods which are unable to detect fastidious organism that are difficult to culture and occur at low concentrations without time consuming multiple cultivation steps.
Raman spectroscopy in combination with statistical analysis holds the potential for a fast evaluation of bacterial antibiotic susceptibility without the need of time-consuming cultivation.
The results of the microarray-based assay corresponded well to those of blood culture, but its clinical utility is reduced by the prerequisite of time-consuming cultivation.
As for the microarray-based assay, it corresponds well to blood culture, but the prerequisite of time-consuming cultivation reduces its clinical utility.
Production of PDH activity in its natural source, A. meleagris, is extremely tedious and time consuming as these cultivations have to be performed in resting shallow cultures for up to 6 weeks.
Accordingly, in the North, the region with the greatest extension of indigenous lands, a larger proportion of indigenous households reported consuming foods obtained from cultivation and animal raising, hunting and fishing, and collecting.
The gcd knockout strain grew slightly faster (µ = 0.58 ± 0.01 h−1) than the wild-type strain (µ = 0.50 ± 0.02 h−1) during the beginning (2 6 h) of the cultivation, without consuming any of the sugars, but its growth ceased when acetate was depleted.
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As shown in Figure 3b, BGL-expressing strains started consuming cellobiose after 24 h cultivation, with 28.2 g/l (Jm-blc-Tfu) and 28.0 g/l (Jm-cadA-blc-Tfu) cellobiose consumed after 48 h.
Within our junior research group we want to develop an on-chip device to probe antibiotic susceptibility patterns of sepsis pathogens based on optical spectroscopy without the need for time-consuming bacterial cultivation.
The shift away from consuming quinoa in the cradle of its cultivation has alarmed some of the plant's top marketers in the United States, where quinoa is increasingly coveted by health-conscious consumers.
