The chemical-in-plug bacterial chemotaxis assay is prone to false positive responses

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Li, Jun ^b   Go, Alvin C ^a   Ward, Mandy J ^b,c   Ottemann, Karen M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

EID: 77951475707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-77     Document Type: Article

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