Applications of Flow Cytometry to Characterize Bacterial Physiological Responses

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Left. Structure and cell distribution in biofilms can be studied by microscopy. Bottom left. Analysis of a bacterial culture sample allows obtaining average measurements of a physiological response. Right. FCM allows analyzing subpopulations of cultured bacterial cells with different physiological states; FACS permits separating those subpopulations that can be independently characterized by high throughput molecular techniques.