Characteristics of a pink-pigmented bacterium isolated from biofilm in a cooling tower in Tokyo, Japan

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 637-641

  Furuhata, Katsunori ^a   Goto, Keiichi ^b   Kato, Yuko ^b   Saitou, Keiko ^c   Sugiyama, Jun Ichi ^c   Hara, Motonobu ^a   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^d   Fukuyama, Masafumi ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mitsui Norin Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

^c Building Management Education Center   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Cooling tower; Pink pigment; Roseomonas spp.

Indexed keywords

ADIPIC ACID; ARABINOSE; CITRATE TRISODIUM; FATTY ACID; GLUCONATE POTASSIUM; MALIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UBIDECARENONE; UREASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COOLING TOWER; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; ROSEOMONAS CERVICALIS; ROSEOMONAS GILARDII; ROSEOMONAS K 20; ROSEOMONAS MUCOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; ROSEOMONAS; ROSEOMONAS CERVICALIS; ROSEOMONAS GILARDII; ROSEOMONAS GILARDII SUBSP. ROSEA; ROSEOMONAS MUCOSA;

EID: 34250834314     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03951.x     Document Type: Article

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