Analysis Of Bacterial Chemotactic Response Using Dynamic Laser Speckle

Chemotaxis has a meaningful role in several fields, such as microbial physiology, medicine and biotechnology. We present a new application of dynamic laser speckle or biospeckle to detect different degrees of bacterial motility during chemotactic response experiments. Encouraging results showed diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Murialdo, Silvia Elena, Sendra, Gonzalo Hernán, Passoni, Lucía I., Arizaga, Ricardo, Gonzalez, Jorge Froilan, Rabal, Héctor J., Trivi, Marcelo Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Argentina
Institución:Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Repositorio:CIC Digital (CICBA)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.cic.gba.gob.ar:11746/10628
Acceso en línea:https://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/handle/11746/10628
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Óptica, Acústica
Ciencias Físicas
Dynamic speckle
Chemotaxis
Bacteria
Biospeckle
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Sumario:Chemotaxis has a meaningful role in several fields, such as microbial physiology, medicine and biotechnology. We present a new application of dynamic laser speckle or biospeckle to detect different degrees of bacterial motility during chemotactic response experiments. Encouraging results showed different bacterial dynamic responses due to differences in the hardness of the support in the swarming plates. We compare this method to a conventional technique that uses white light. Both methods showed to be analogous and, in some cases, complementary. The results suggest that biospeckle processed images can be used as an alternative method to evaluate bacterial chemotactic response and can supply additional information about the bacterial motility in different areas of the swarm plate assay that might be useful for biological analysis.