Research Catalog

Title

Nonculturable microorganisms in the environment / edited by Rita R. Colwell, D. Jay Grimes.

Publication

Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Colwell, Rita R., 1934-
• Grimes, D. Jay (Darrell Jay), 1944-

Description

xi, 354 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Culture Media
• Microbial ecology
• Microbiology > Cultures and culture media
• Environmental Microbiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Semantics and Strategies / Rita R. Colwell and D. Jay Grimes -- 2. Morphological Changes Leading to the Nonculturable State / Jeffrey J. Byrd -- 3. Size Matters: Dwarf Cells in Soil and Subsurface Terrestrial Environments / Thomas L. Kieft -- 4. Membrane Bioenergetics in Reference to Marine Bacterial Culturability / Minoru Wada and Kazuhiro Kogure -- 5. Diversity of Uncultured Microorganisms in the Environment / Erko Stackebrandt and T. Martin Embley -- 6. Molecular Genetic Methods for Detection and Identification of Viable but Nonculturable Microorganisms / Ivor T. Knight -- 7. Environmental Parameters Associated with the Viable but Nonculturable State / Michel J. Gauthier -- 8. Starved and Nonculturable Microorganisms in Biofilms / Kevin C. Marshall -- 9. Phenotypic Plasticity in Bacterial Biofilms as It Affects Issues of Viability and Culturability / J. William Costerton --
• 10. Survival, Dormancy, and Nonculturable Cells in Extreme Deep-Sea Environments / Jody W. Deming and John A. Baross -- 11. Bacterial Viruses and Hosts: Influence of Culturable State / Frank T. Robb and Russell T. Hill -- 12. The Importance of Viable but Nonculturable Bacteria in Biogeochemistry / D. Jay Grimes, Aaron L. Mills and Kenneth H. Nealson -- 13. Viable but Nonculturable Cells in Plant-Associated Bacterial Populations / Mark Wilson and Steven E. Lindow -- 14. Implications of the Viable but Nonculturable State in Risk Assessment Based on Field Testing of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms / Morris A. Levin and J. Scott Angle -- 15. Chemical Disinfection and Injury of Bacteria in Water / Gordon A. McFeters and Mark W. LeChevallier -- 16. The Public Health Significance of Viable but Nonculturable Bacteria / James D. Oliver -- 17. Epidemiological Significance of Viable but Nonculturable Microorganisms / Anwarul Huq, Irma N. G. Rivera and Rita R. Colwell --
• 18. Bacterial Death Revisited / Rita R. Colwell.

ISBN

1555811965

LCCN

00029291

OCLC

• ocm43706928
• SCSB-4264648

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries