Healthcare-associated infections can occur in different care units and can affect both
patients and healthcare professionals. Bacteria represent the most common cause of …

In the recent years, vibrational spectroscopies (infrared and Raman spectroscopy) have
been developed for all sorts of analyses in microbiology. Important features of these …

Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND), also called early mortality syndrome
(EMS), is a recently emergent shrimp bacterial disease that has resulted in substantial …

For bacterial typing to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
typing methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

The post-genomics era has brought with it ever increasing demands to observe and
characterise variation within biological systems. This variation has been studied at the …

1.1 Objectives This article describes details of recent technological developments, data
elaboration methodologies, and representative examples of applications in this field. Only …

The ability to diagnose the early onset of disease, rapidly, non-invasively and unequivocally
has multiple benefits. These include the early intervention of therapeutic strategies leading …

The surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of a number of species and strains of
bacteria obtained on novel gold nanoparticle (∼ 80 nm) covered SiO2 substrates excited at …

The interest in a fast, high specific and reliable detection method for bacteria identification is
increasing. We will show that the application of vibrational spectroscopy is feasible for the …

We demonstrate the utility of the Raman confocal microscope to generate a spectral profile
from a single microbial cell and the use of this approach to differentiate bacterial species. In …