ABSTRACT
IMC has been used to follow microbiological activity in a wide range of applications, including for monitoring and quantifying soil microbial activity and contamination (Bravo et al. 2011; Guo et al. 2012); for the treatment of sewage (Dziejowski and Bialobrzewski 2011); in detecting infection in and contamination of clinical products and samples (Trampuz et al. 2007); in quantifying the ecacy of antimicrobial compounds (Li et al. 2000; O’Neill et al. 2003), including the mode of action of bacteriostatic or bactericidal compounds (von Ah et al. 2009) and antiviral compounds (Tan and Lu 1999; Heng et al.
