Droplet Digital PCR Is an Improved Alternative Method for High-Quality Enumeration of Viable Probiotic Strains

Traditional microbiological enumeration methods have long been employed as the standard evaluation procedure for probiotic microorganisms. These methods are labor intensive, have long-time to results and inherently have a high degree of variability – up to 35%. As clinical probiotic and microbiome s...

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Main Authors: Sarah J. Z. Hansen, Peipei Tang, Anthony Kiefer, Kevin Galles, Connie Wong, Wesley Morovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03025/full