Laser impact assessment in a biofilm-forming bacterium Pseudoalteromonas carrageenovora using a flow cytometric system

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 399-402

  Nandakumar, Kanavillil ^a   Obika, Hideki ^a   Shinozaki, Tatsuya ^a   Ooie, Toshihiko ^a   Utsumi, Akihiro ^a   Yano, Tetsuo ^a  

^a AIST Shikoku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial attachment; Bacterial mortality; Biofilm forming bacteria; Flow cytometry; Pulsed laser irradiations

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

FLOW CYTOMETRIC SYSTEMS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW RATE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORTALITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS CARRAGEENOVORA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL SURVIVAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS CARRAGEENOVORA;

EID: 0037457682     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.10585     Document Type: Article

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