Influence of size, shape, and flexibility on bacterial passage through micropore membrane filters

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6749-6754

  Wang, Yingying ^a,b   Hammes, Frederik ^a   Düggelin, Marcel ^c   Egli, Thomas ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CULTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFILTRATION; MICROPOROSITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

BIOVOLUME; MICRO PORES; TESTING METHODS;

WAVE FILTERS; BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; FILTER; LABORATORY METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE;

ANAEROBIC FILTER; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYLEMONELLA GRACILIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROPORE FILTER; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SPHINGOPYXIS ALASKENSIS; SPIRILLUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA; FILTRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVUNDIMONAS DIMINUTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYLEMONELLA; HYLEMONELLA GRACILIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; SPHINGOPYXIS ALASKENSIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACTERIAL SPECIES; BIOVOLUMES; CULTIVATION CONDITIONS; FILTER MATERIALS; FILTRATION VOLUME; GRADING SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEMBRANE FILTERS; MICROPORE MEMBRANE; MICROPORES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RE-EVALUATION; STANDARD TESTS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 50849133304     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800720n     Document Type: Article

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