Real-time monitoring of streptococcus mutans biofilm formation using a quartz crystal microbalance

Caries Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 474-483

  Tam, K ^a   Kinsinger, N ^a   Ayala, P ^a   Qi, F ^b   Shi, W ^b   Myung, N V ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

In situ; Mutants; Quartz crystal microbalance; Real time; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

GLUCAN; SILICON DIOXIDE; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; HUMAN; KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SALIVA; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCANS; HEAT; HUMANS; KINETICS; QUARTZ; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SALIVA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 36549083363     PISSN: 00086568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000108321     Document Type: Article

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