Advances in Chemical and Biological Methods to Identify Microorganisms-From Past to Present

Overview

Journal Microorganisms

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2019 May 16

PMID 31086084

Citations 110

Authors

Ricardo Franco-Duarte

Lucia cernakova

Snehal Kadam

Karishma S Kaushik

Bahare Salehi

Antonio Bevilacqua

Maria Rosaria Corbo

Hubert Antolak

Katarzyna Dybka-Stepien

Martyna Leszczewicz

Saulo Relison Tintino

Veruska Cintia Alexandrino de Souza

Javad Sharifi-Rad

Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho

Natalia Martins

Celia F Rodrigues

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Abstract

Fast detection and identification of microorganisms is a challenging and significant feature from industry to medicine. Standard approaches are known to be very time-consuming and labor-intensive (e.g., culture media and biochemical tests). Conversely, screening techniques demand a quick and low-cost grouping of bacterial/fungal isolates and current analysis call for broad reports of microorganisms, involving the application of molecular techniques (e.g., 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing based on polymerase chain reaction). The goal of this review is to present the past and the present methods of detection and identification of microorganisms, and to discuss their advantages and their limitations.

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