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Table 1 Peculiarities of the isothermal microcalorimetry calscreener (IMC) in medical microbiology applications

From: Isothermal microcalorimetry (IMC) calscreener: automated peculiarities of antimicrobial therapy and metabolism depth of multidrug resistant bacteria

Microbiological application

Specificity of application

References

Medical microbiological application

The detection of bacterial contamination in donated blood platelets

Trampuz et al. (2007)

The determination of inhibitory effects for diverse antimicrobial compounds and microorganisms

Xi et al. (2002), Yang et al. (2008) and von Ah et al. (2009)

The determination of heat flow in the growth pattern medically-relevant bacteria

Von Ah et al. (2008) and Baldoni et al. (2009)

Distinguishing the growth rates of methycillin-susceptible Staphylocococcus aureus from methycillin-resistant Staphylococcus aures

von Ah et al. (2008) and Baldoni et al. (2009)

The measurement of the growth and heat of adsorption in mouth bacteria (halophilic bacteria) on surfaces in dentistry

Hauser-Gerspach et al. (2008)

The examination of viral maladies and antiviral compounds activity via high heat emission from infected cells in contrast to the uninfected control cells

Tan and Lu (1999) and Heng et al. (2005)

Environmental microbiological application

The assessment of ecological bacterial activities in lake and marine sediments via heat production

Pamatmat and Bhagwat (1973) and Pamatmat et al. (1981)

The measurement of the heat production of lake sediments comprising mixed cohorts of anaerobes, fermenters and aerobes

Haglund et al. (2003)

The observational studies on the relational dynamics of heat production on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and dehydrogenases assay (triphenyltetrazolium and iodonitrotetrazolium chloride) in Caenorhabditis elegans

Braeckman et al. (2002)

The measurement of the heat production of aquatic protists in ascertaining the allometric relativity, amidst mass, surface area, and metabolic rate

Johnson et al. (2009)

The investigation of the microbial population, organic organic acid contaminant/toxicity and heavy metal contamination by heat production in soil microbiology

Rong et al. (2007) and Critter et al. (2002)

The assessment of soil composting processes

Laor et al. (2004)