Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms react with and precipitate toxic soluble gold

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 667-675

  Karthikeyan, S ^a   Beveridge, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PRECIPITATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036861365     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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