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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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
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
Subjects:	probiotic enumeration Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Bl-04 Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM B. animalis subsp. lactis HN019 droplet digital PCR
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03025/full