Optical Imaging of Bacterial Infection in Living Mice Using a Fluorescent Near-Infrared Molecular Probe

摘要

Bacterial imaging is an emerging technology that has many health and environmental applications.For example,there is an obvious need to develop highly sensitive assays that can detect very small numbers of pathogenic bacterial cells in food,drinking water,or biomedical samples.In other situations,the goal is to study in vivo the temporal and spatial distribution of bacteria in live animals.