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Discrimination of single-porin Escherichia (E.) coli mutants by ATR and transmission mode FTIR spectroscopy.
Journal of biophotonics - 1 Jun 2014
Saraiva Raúl G, Lopes João Almeida, Machado Jorge, Gameiro Paula, Feio Maria J
Abstract excerpt
Vibrational spectroscopy has long been used in bacterial identification with different levels of taxonomic discrimination but its true potential for intra-species differentiation remains poorly explored. Herein, both transmission Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and attenuated total reflectance (ATR)-FTIR spectroscopy are used to analyse E. coli strains that differ solely in their porin expression profile. In...
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