Viability and activity in readily culturable bacteria: a review and discussion of the practical issues
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Vol. 73 (2) , 169-187
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1000664013047
Abstract
In microbiology the terms ‘viability’ and ‘culturability’ are often equated. However, in recent years the apparently self-contradictory expression ‘viable-but-nonculturable’ (‘VBNC’) has been applied...Keywords
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