Escherichia coli swim on the right-hand side

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7046, 2005, Pages 1271-1274

  DiLuzio, Willow R ^a,b   Turner, Linda ^c   Mayer, Michael ^a   Garstecki, Piotr ^a   Weibel, Douglas B ^a   Berg, Howard C ^b,c   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; CELLS; DISEASES; GLASS; SILICONES; SUBSTRATES;

BIOFILM FORMATION; GLASS SURFACE; PATHOGENIC INFECTIONS; PHENOTYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DIMETICONE;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOFILM; CELL MOTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLATE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING;

AGAR; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLA; LOCOMOTION; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 21744459299     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03660     Document Type: Article

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