The use of drip flow and rotating disk reactors for Staphylococcus aureus biofilm analysis

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 46, 2010, Pages

  Schwartz, Kelly ^a   Stephenson, Rachel ^a   Hernandez, Margarita ^a   Jambang, Nicolays ^a   Boles, Blaise R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Drip flow reactor; Immunology; Issue 46; Open system biofilm; Rotating disk reactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355125591     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2470     Document Type: Article

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