Microbial adhesion in flow displacement systems

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-141

  Busscher, Henk J ^a   Van Der Mei, Henny C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; CONTACT LENS SOLUTION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SILASTIC; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFACT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTACT LENS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; ENAMEL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; KERATITIS; LAMINAR FLOW; LARYNX PROSTHESIS; MICROBIAL ADHESION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; ROTHIA DENTOCARIOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHEAR RATE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL ADHESION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNGI; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SHEAR STRENGTH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROTHIA DENTOCARIOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 31544433926     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.19.1.127-141.2006     Document Type: Review

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