Infected plant tissue contains viable bacteria, however, and will resume production of exudate upon the return of warm weather in the following spring.

In these cases, all samples should be seeded with a known amount of viable bacteria for the MBOD analysis.

Because the method relies on antigen rather than viable bacteria, the results are not disrupted by prior antibiotic use.

The large intestine of animals contains some 3.3x10 viable bacteria, which may infect the flesh after death if the carcass is improperly dressed.

However, the greater challenge remains the delivery of sufficient viable bacteria to the site of interest.

Bacteremia is the presence of viable bacteria in the bloodstream.

I find it highly unlikely that you can recover viable bacteria from material that old.

Bacteremia is the presence of viable bacteria in the blood stream.

(2) Bacteremia or sepsis : bacteremia defined as the presence of viable bacteria in the blood.