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Flow cytometry as an advanced tool in probiotic viability assessment based on membrane integrity. The method utilizes a cell permeant dye that penetrates all bacterial cells regardless of their viability (live, damaged, and dead) and a non-permeant dye that only enters dead bacterial cells. The difference between the fluorescence from two dyes represents viable cells.
