The viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state has been recognized as a strategy for bacteria to
cope with stressful environments; in this state, bacteria fail to grow on routine culture …

Many bacterial species have been found to exist in a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state
since its discovery in 1982. VBNC cells are characterized by a loss of culturability on routine …

Many bacteria, including a variety of important human pathogens, are known to respond to
various environmental stresses by entry into a novel physiological state, where the cells …

Bacteria display an abundance of cellular forms and can change shape during their life
cycle. Many plausible models regarding the functional significance of cell morphology have …

Viable but nonculturable (VBNC) cells were recognized 30 years ago; and despite decades
of research on the topic, most results are disperse and apparently incongruous. Since its …

The most fundamental questions such as whether a cell is alive, in the sense of being able
to divide or to form a colony, may sometimes be very hard to answer, since even axenic …

Many pathogens can enter into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state in response to harsh
environmental stresses. Bacteria in this state can retain certain features of viable cells, such …

It is now well accepted that Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the water-borne disease
cholera, is acquired from environmental sources where it persists between outbreaks of the …

In microbiology the terms 'viability'and 'culturability'are often equated. However, in recent
years the apparently self-contradictory expression 'viable-but-nonculturable'('VBNC') has …

Sterilized seawater was used to assess the effects of temperature and salinity on the survival
of Vibrio vulnificus. In the temperature range of 13 to 22 degrees C, numbers of V. vulnificus …