Can BioVigilant’s IMD instruments tell difference between live and freshly killed microbes?
The answer to this question depends on how much fluorescence remains in the killed microbe. If a significant amount of fluorophors is intact, the dead cell may continue to fluoresce sufficiently to be categorized as a microbe. If, however, the microbe has been dead for a while or was killed by a sanitizing technique that uses bleach or hydrogen peroxide that de-natures the fluorophors in the cell, the amount of fluorescence remaining will be below the threshold required for the IMD instrument to count the particulate as a microbe.
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- What is the chance that two or more separate microbes will pass through BioVigilant’s IMD instruments so closely together that they may inaccurately be counted as one larger particulate?
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