Viable but nonculturable (VBNC) bacteria refers to bacteria that are in a state of very low metabolic activity and do not divide, but are alive and have the ability to become culturable once resuscitated.
Hannes Luidalepp
Search from pubmed helps:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=VBNC
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Daria Tashyreva
In my opinion, this is a very good paper explaining the phenomenon of VBNC bacteria
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Monia El Bour
Hi Mahsa,
Very intresting question that continue to suscite much more reflexions since the list of stress factors is increasing. Here I forward for you a paper that can be useful for you
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