Development of a viability standard curve for microencapsulated probiotic bacteria using confocal microscopy and image analysis software

Sarah Moore, Kasipathy Kailasapathy, Michael Phillips, Mark R. Jones

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Abstract

Microencapsulation is proposed to protect probiotic strains from food processing procedures and to maintain probiotic viability. Little research has described the in situ viability of microencapsulated probiotics. This study successfully developed a real-time viability standard curve for microencapsulated bacteria using confocal microscopy, fluorescent dyes and image analysis software.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16-22
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Microbiological Methods
Volume114
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • computer software
  • confocal microscopy
  • image analysis
  • microencapsulation
  • probiotics

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