Bacterial swimming speed and rotation rate of bundled flagella

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 125-129

  Magariyama, Yukio ^a   Sugiyama, Shigeru ^a   Kudo, Seishi ^b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flagellar rotation rate; Laser dark field microscopy; Salmonella typhimurium; Swimming speed

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0035873722     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00166-5     Document Type: Article

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