Impact of higher alginate expression on deposition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in radial stagnation point flow and reverse osmosis systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7376-7383

  Herzberg, Moshe ^a   Rezene, Tesfalem Zere ^a   Ziemba, Christopher ^b   Gillor, Osnat ^a   Mathee, Kalai ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE CAPSULES; ATTACHMENT RATE; BACTERIAL DEPOSITION; BIOFILM FORMATION; CELL ATTACHMENTS; CRITICAL STEPS; CROSS FLOWS; EPS PRODUCTION; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; MEMBRANE CELLS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; P.AERUGINOSA; PERMEATE FLUX; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RADIAL STAGNATION POINT FLOW; RADIAL STAGNATION POINT FLOW SYSTEMS; RECTANGULAR PLATES; REVERSE OSMOSIS SYSTEMS; RO MEMBRANE; SYNTHETIC WASTE WATER; WILD TYPES;

ALGINATE; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFOULING; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION RATES; HYDRATES; HYDROPHILICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; LAMINAR FLOW; OSMOSIS MEMBRANES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; STRAIN RATE; WASTEWATER;

CELL MEMBRANES;

ALGINIC ACID; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ALGINATE; BIOFOULING; COLONIZATION; DEPOSITION; EXOPOLYMER; HYDROPHOBICITY; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OSMOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; HYDROPHILICITY; LAMINAR FLOW; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE OSMOSIS;

ALGINATES; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MUTATION; OSMOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 70349622989     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901095u     Document Type: Article

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