Quantum dot probes for bacteria distinguish Escherichia coli mutants and permit in vivo imaging
Open Access
- 10 April 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 20,p. 2331-2333
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b803590c
Abstract
Fluorescent quantum dots coated with zinc(II)-dipicolylamine coordination complexes can selectively stain a rough Escherichia coli mutant that lacks an O-antigen element and permit optical detection in a living mouse leg infection model.Keywords
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