Microbiological application | Specificity of application | References |
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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 | ||
Distinguishing the growth rates of methycillin-susceptible Staphylocococcus aureus from methycillin-resistant Staphylococcus aures | ||
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 | ||
Environmental microbiological application | The assessment of ecological bacterial activities in lake and marine sediments via heat production | |
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 | ||
The assessment of soil composting processes | Laor et al. (2004) |