Method and apparatus for the detection of microbes in liquids, in air and on non-living surfaces in which samples are exposed to electromagnetic radiation of specific energies capable of exciting various metabolites, cofactors and cellular and spore components, with the microbial cells to be sampled (and more specifically the excited metabolites, cofactors and/or other cellular components) contained therein emit fluorescence that can be measured. The signal from the background and scattered excitation signals is removed from the fluorescence signals of the microbial components, the relative fluorescent signals of the intrinsic microbial components are required to lie within physiological ranges, and the amplitude of the background-corrected fluorescence signals used to enumerate the microbe content in the sample.
用于检测液体、空气和非
生物表面中微
生物的方法和装置,将样品暴露于特定能量的电磁辐射中,电磁辐射能够激发各种代谢物、辅助因子以及细胞和孢子成分,其中所含的待采样微
生物细胞(更具体地说是被激发的代谢物、辅助因子和/或其他细胞成分)发出可测量的荧光。从微
生物成分的荧光信号中去除背景信号和散射激发信号,要求固有微
生物成分的相对荧光信号在生理范围内,并利用背景校正荧光信号的振幅来枚举样品中的微
生物含量。