Application of Flow-Cytometry In a Field Of Microbiology; A New Horizon For Rapid Microbial Diagnosis

Abstract

Diagnostics are the backbone for the provision of good quality health care facilities to community. With the innovation in science and technology, many new modalities are coming up having certain benefits and limitations. Though in microbiology culture and sensitivity is still a gold standard but with certain limitation like increased time consumption, less automation, deficiency for the provision of microbial proteiomic and genomic details. Therefore, in era of increased anti microbial resistance, the scenario is urging for the availability of novel, automated, rapid, cost effective, and more sensitive strategies to combat the situation. Therefore the objectives of this review article was to provide an evidence regarding application of flow cytometry in a field of microbiology. It is concluded that flow cytometric method is a rapid, accurate and more sensitive method for simultaneous identification and quantification of microbial physiological and compositional states