ReviewEMBO reports2001
A matter of bacterial life and death.
Review in EMBO reports, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed.
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- What happens to Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Bifidobacterium longum ssp. longum in an experimental environment with eukaryotic cells?BMC microbiology · 2024Article
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- Wake Up! Resuscitation of Viable but Nonculturable Bacteria: Mechanism and Potential Application.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Oxidative damage and delayed replication allow viableScience translational medicine · 2021Article
- Resuscitation of Pulsed Electric Field-TreatedFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Characteristics of the copper-induced viable-but-non-culturable state in bacteria.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2021Review
- The Neglected Microbial Components of Commercial Probiotic Formulations.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Methods for detection of viable foodborne pathogens: current state-of-art and future prospects.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2020Review
- Copper Resistance Mediates Long-Term Survival ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Critical analysis of a doxycycline treatment trial of rhesus macaques infected with Borrelia burgdorferi.Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2018Article
- The emergence of metabolic heterogeneity and diverse growth responses in isogenic bacterial cells.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Sublethal Injury and Viable but Non-culturable (VBNC) State in Microorganisms During Preservation of Food and Biological Materials by Non-thermal Processes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
- Schrödinger's microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems.Microbiome · 2017Review
- Survival strategies of Escherichia coli and Vibrio spp.: contribution of the viable but nonculturable phenotype to their stress-resistance and persistence in adverse environments.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2017Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Over 50 years ago, standard microbiological methods were established for determining whether bacterial cells were dead or alive. Recently there has been a flurry of reports suggesting that bacteria may exist in an eclipsed state, escaping detection by standard methods. Whether there really is such a state is of more than academic interest, considering the implications for public health. The ensuing debate has been unusually energetic for the normally cultured community of microbiologists.
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