Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21198175›Full record

ArticleJournal of biomedical optics

Identification of different bacterial species in biofilms using confocal Raman microscopy.

Brooke D Beier, Robert G Quivey, Andrew J Berger

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Article in Journal of biomedical optics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Journal of conservative dentistry and endodontics · 2025
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  8. Optical Sensing of Microbial Life on Surfaces.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brooke D BeierUniversity of Rochester, The Institute of Optics, Wilmot Building, Rochester, NY14627, USA.
Robert G Quivey
Andrew J Berger

Funding

Oxidative Stress Responses in Oral StreptococciR01DE013683 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI QUIVEY, ROBERT G · 2000 to 2019
$6.2M
Low pH-mediated membrane biosynthesis in S. mutans.R01DE017157 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI QUIVEY, ROBERT G · 2006 to 2010
$1.8M
Raman spectroscopy of bacteria in oral plaquesR21DE016111 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI BERGER, ANDREW J · 2005 to 2006
$281k
NIDCR NIH HHS 1-R21-DE016111-01A1NIDCR NIH HHS DE0-13683NIDCR NIH HHS DE0-17157NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE013683NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE017157NIDCR NIH HHS R21 DE016111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Confocal Raman microspectroscopy is used to discriminate between different species of bacteria grown in biofilms. Tests are performed using two bacterial species, Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus mutans, which are major components of oral plaque and of particular interest due to their association with healthy and cariogenic plaque, respectively. Dehydrated biofilms of these species are studied as a simplified model of dental plaque. A prediction model based on principal component analysis and logistic regression is calibrated using pure biofilms of each species and validated on pure biofilms grown months later, achieving 96% accuracy in prospective classification. When biofilms of the two species are partially mixed together, Raman-based identifications are achieved within ∼2 μm of the boundaries between species with 97% accuracy. This combination of spatial resolution and predication accuracy should be suitable for forming images of species distributions within intact two-species biofilms.

Indexed as

Bacterial LoadBiofilmsEquipment DesignEquipment Failure AnalysisMicroscopy, ConfocalSpectrum Analysis, RamanStreptococcus mutansStreptococcus sanguis

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PMID21198175
PMCPMC3014224

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