Membrane filter (pore size, 0.22-0.45 μm; Thickness, 150 μm) passing-through activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacterial species with indigenous infiltration ability

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-46

  Hasegawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Naganuma, Kouta ^a   Nakagawa, Yoji ^a   Matsuyama, Tohey ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial motility; Infiltration activity; Millipore membrane filter; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Reticulate structure

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DEVICE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0038546524     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00327-6     Document Type: Article

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