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Modern Approaches for Microorganisms’ Identification

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Microorganisms are predominantly single-cell organisms that have a direct impact on the life quality of human being. The ability of microorganisms to transform matter in a way that is impossible or very expensive to reproduce using chemical technologies is a reason for bacteria utilization in food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, etc. industries. Moreover, the annual significant number of illnesses and deaths of both humans and animals caused by bacterial pathogens makes them one of the most important agents in which propagation should be controlled constantly. The continuous development of more sophisticated techniques makes it possible to identify microorganisms in a shorter time and with higher reliability, so it contributes to better adjustment of patients’ treatment or technological processes control in which microorganisms are involved. Thus, this section is prepared to familiarize readers with techniques and approaches that presently are utilized in laboratory practice for distinguishing microorganisms. It starts from the conventional techniques such as microscopy or the determination of biochemical profiles of bacteria, which are still widely exploited in the routine clinical diagnostics and industry. Further, more advanced methods to which automatic systems based on biochemical profiling, chromatography techniques, molecular biology techniques, as well as MALDI-TOF MS analysis can be accounted. Finally, the great potential of microarrays and separation techniques in the identification of the microorganisms has been revealed.

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  1. Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland

    Oleksandra Pryshchepa, Viorica Railean-Plugaru, Agnieszka Rodzik, Małgorzata Szultka-Młyńska & Bogusław Buszewski

  2. Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Poland

    Oleksandra Pryshchepa, Michał Złoch, Paweł Pomastowski, Viorica Railean-Plugaru, Agnieszka Rodzik & Bogusław Buszewski

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Pryshchepa, O. et al. (2022). Modern Approaches for Microorganisms’ Identification. In: Buszewski, B., Baranowska, I. (eds) Handbook of Bioanalytics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95660-8_40

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