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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 78, Issue 20, Pages 7369-7375Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02190-12
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21625-B20]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P21625] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 21625] Funding Source: researchfish
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A new protocol for rapid, specific, and sensitive cell-based quantification of Vibrio cholerae/Vibrio mimicus in water samples was developed. The protocol is based on catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization (CARD-FISH) in combination with solid-phase cytometry. For pure cultures, we were able to quantify down to 6 V. cholerae cells on one membrane with a relative precision of 39% and down to 12 cells with a relative precision of 17% after hybridization with the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled probe Vchomim 1276 (specific for V. cholerae and V. mimicus) and signal amplification. The corresponding position of the probe on the 16S rRNA is highly accessible even when labeled with HRP. For the first time, we were also able to successfully quantify V. cholerae/V. minicus via solid-phase cytometry in extremely turbid environmental water samples collected in Austria. Cell numbers ranged from 4.5 x 10(1) cells ml(-1) in the large saline lake Neusiedler See to 5.6 x 10(4) cells ml(-1) in an extremely turbid shallow soda lake situated nearby. We therefore suggest CARD-FISH in combination with solid-phase cytometry as a powerful tool to quantify V. cholerae/V. mimicus in ecological studies as well as for risk assessment and monitoring programs.
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