Current Perspectives on Viable but Non-Culturable (VBNC) Pathogenic Bacteria

• Main Authors: Thandavarayan eRamamurthy (Author), Amit eGhosh (Author), Gururaja Perumal Pazhani (Author), Sumio eShinoda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Under stress conditions, many species of bacteria enter into starvation mode of metabolism or a physiologically viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. Several human pathogenic bacteria have been reported to enter into the VBNC state under these conditions. The pathogenic VBNC bacteria cannot be gro...