Measuring diameters of rod-shaped bacteria in vivo with polarized light scattering.
AUTOR(ES)
Bronk, B V
RESUMO
The angular function for elements of the Mueller matrix for polarized light scattering from suspensions of microorganisms is known to be reproducible for different growths of a given bacterial strain in the log (or exponential) phase of growth. The reason for this, the stability of the size and shape distribution for cells, is briefly discussed. Experiments were performed using suspensions of two different strains of Escherichia coli cells in log phase and measuring the angular dependence of the Mueller matrix ratio S34/S11. Calculations were then performed using the coupled dipole approximation to model electromagnetic scattering from particles where the shape of an individual cell was approximated by a cylinder capped with hemispheres of the same radius as the cylinder. Using previously measured values for the length distribution and index of refraction of the cells, the calculated scattering curve was found to fit the measured curve very well. The values obtained for the cell diameters were quite close to diameters previously measured by optical microscopy. Thus this method provides a rapid and convenient method for monitoring bacterial diameters in vivo even when there is an appreciable distribution of bacterial lengths in the population.
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