Optical Fiber-Based Steady State and Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy for Rapid Identification and Classification of Bacterial Pathogens Directly from Colonies on Agar Plates

Table 1

Emission maxima of tryptophan and NADH from S. aureus, P.aeruginosa, S. typhi, and K. pneumonia.

Sample	Tryptophan; (λexc = 280 nm)	NADH; (λexc = 380 nm)
S. aureus	363	436
P. aeruginosa	368	444
S. typhi	366	442
K. pneumoniae	368	445