Many limitations of culture-based microbial assessments for investigating causes of dampness-related health effects have long been evident.
21 The number of in-flight infections was also somewhat lower than would be predicted using estimates from a recent quantitative microbial risk assessment of within flight transmission of influenza A (H1N1).
In conclusion, the used microbial assessments were found easy to employ, and detected reasonable bacterial colonisation even after short periods of intubation.
For example, investigations of the biological pathways underpinning drug response or microbial pathogenesis, the assessment of safety and efficacy of interventions, and the discovery of biomarkers all rely on laboratory-based methods for at least some stages of observation, measurement and/or processing.
We found that weather conditions of a specific year may strongly affect the evaluation of microbial quality and that the long-term assessment of microbial water quality may be quite different from the evaluation based on short-term observations.
In order to link observed degradation with the purity of the microbial community during the degradation, an assessment of the microbial population was made through DGGE profiling.
These methods use next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to sequence many molecules from the same sample and they have been applied extensively to the assessment of microbial diversity, where the 16S ribosomal gene region is routinely used as a marker to survey microbial diversity [ 1, 2].
Thermodynamic calculations of energy yields of catabolic reactions from geochemical data of diffuse fluids facilitate an assessment of microbial metabolism in vent settings.
The assessment of microbial processes is often done in Microbioreactor systems (MBRs), which allow for parallel cultivation in multiple independent wells.
