Use of the rotating wall vessel technology to study the effect of shear stress on growth behaviour of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2098-2110

  Crabbé, Aurélie ^a,b   De Boever, Patrick ^b,c   Van Houdt, Rob ^b   Moors, Hugo ^b   Mergeay, Max ^b   Cornelis, Pierre ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FLOW KINETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHEOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 58549106133     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01631.x     Document Type: Article

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