ReviewISRN microbiology2013
Viable but nonculturable bacteria: food safety and public health perspective.
Review in ISRN microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Public health risks related to food safety issues in the food market: a systematic literature review.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Transcriptomic insights on differential gene regulations in viable but non-culturable (VBNC) bacteria under chlorine and UV disinfection.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Comparative performance of air sampling methods in a broiler house: implications for use and recovery of bacteria.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food Chain: Bridging Knowledge Gaps for Effective Detection and Control.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Artificial intelligence applications in biofilm research: computational approaches for biofilm analysis and antimicrobial prediction.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- A two-year study ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- The surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater from a one health perspective: A global scoping and temporal review (2014-2024).One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Microbial signals in primary and metastatic brain tumors.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Prediction of the Ecological Behavior ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Flow cytometry study ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Viable but non-cultivable state in oral microbiota: a critical review of an underexplored microbial survival strategy.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Review
- Microbial culture vs. mNGS: diagnostic variations in periprosthetic joint infection.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Culture-Based Standard Methods for the Isolation ofPolish journal of microbiology · 2024Review
- Effects of Thermally-Assisted and High-Pressure Processing on Background Microbiota and theMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Understanding the transition to viable but non-culturable state in Escherichia coli W3110: a comprehensive analysis of potential spectrochemical biomarkers.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Article
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- Seasonal Variability of Cultivable Nitrate-Reducing and Denitrifying Bacteria and Functional Gene Copy Number in Fresh Water Lake.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Evidence of a Viable but Nonculturable (VBNC) Phase inMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Analysis of Culturable Bacterial Diversity of Pangong Tso Lake via a 16S rRNA Tag Sequencing Approach.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Wastewater surveillance for bacterial targets: current challenges and future goals.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Review
4 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state is a unique survival strategy of many bacteria in the environment in response to adverse environmental conditions. VBNC bacteria cannot be cultured on routine microbiological media, but they remain viable and retain virulence. The VBNC bacteria can be resuscitated when provided with appropriate conditions. A good number of bacteria including many human pathogens have been reported to enter the VBNC state. Though there have been disputes on the existence of VBNC in the past, extensive molecular studies have resolved most of them, and VBNC has been accepted as a distinct survival state. VBNC pathogenic bacteria are considered a threat to public health and food safety due to their nondetectability through conventional food and water testing methods. A number of disease outbreaks have been reported where VBNC bacteria have been implicated as the causative agent. Further molecular and combinatorial research is needed to tackle the threat posed by VBNC bacteria with regard to public health and food safety.
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