Selection bias (e.g., by primarily characterizing isolates of patients with severe disease) was unlikely because the number of deaths among CDI patients without strain characterization (100/724 [14%]) was similar to that among patients with a characterized strain (77/626 [12%]; p = 0.41).
The efficient quantification of bioprocess parameters is of high importance for strain characterization and process development.
Metschnikowia persimmonesis that grew in PDA and TSA media (Fig. 3) was used for growth curve generation and strain characterization.
Afterward strain characterization using HR-XRD based on a four-reflection Ge monochromator becomes the most common [5].
Initial strain characterization showed the flexibility of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6714 for utilization of different carbon sources for growth.
Strain characterization under various carbon sources resulted in glucose as growth promoter and sodium acetate as lipid inducer.
It was demonstrated that fibrin can be described as a poroviscoelastic material, but a large strain characterization of the parameter values was necessary.
New applications for methanogens such as electromethanogenesis are on the rise, and yet, there is still a lot of basic research, such as strain characterization and development of basic genetic tools, going on about the very diverse, unique group of methanogens (Blasco-Gómez et al. 2017).
Although high-throughput approaches such as Bioscreen C have been applied in Z. mobilis, cutting-edge versatile high-throughput methods should be continuously developed and employed to accelerate the strain characterization such as microfluidics and microfluidics-based advanced microscopy techniques (Gan et al. 2011; Madren et al. 2012).
The additionally performed PCR-mediated amplification of 5 known and putative virulence factor encoding genes revealed that 100, 20, 87, 75, and 98% of the A. pyogenes carried the genes plo, cbpA, nanH, nanP, and fimA, which allowed an individual strain characterization.
Although metabolic footprinting represents only a fraction of the entire metabolome, it provides important information for functional genomics and strain characterization, and it can also provide scientists with a key understanding of cell communication mechanisms, metabolic engineering and industrial biotechnological processes.
