Ultrastructural and electron energy-loss spectroscopic analysis of an extracellular filamentous matrix of an environmental bacterial isolate

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2137-2144

  Böckelmann, Uta ^a   Lünsdorf, Heinrich ^b   Szewzyk, Ulrich ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; ICE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANADA; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RIVER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOFILMS; CANADA; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ICE; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; POLYMERS; RIVERS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34547655863     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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