title: Recent advances in the use of intrinsic fluorescence for bacterial identification and characterization.
abstract: Live bacteria contain a variety of intracellular biomolecules that have specific excitation and emission wavelength spectra characterizing their intrinsic fluorescence. This paper reviews recent developed methods using bacterial intrinsic fluorescence for identification and characterization purposes. Potential applications of such methods at the industrial level are also addressed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Microbiology and Biotechnology of Foods, Department of Food Science & Technology, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece. ammor@aua.gr
authors.forename: Mohammed Salim
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ammor
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes