Contamination of abiotic surfaces: What a colonizing bacterium sees and how to blur it

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Lejeune, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037389949     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00047-7     Document Type: Review

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