High density waves of the bacterium pseudomonas aeruginosa in propagating swarms result in efficient colonization of surfaces

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Du, Huijing ^a   Xu, Zhiliang ^a   Anyan, Morgen ^b   Kim, Oleg ^a   Leevy, W Matthew ^a   Shrout, Joshua D ^a,b   Alber, Mark ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84864656394     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.06.035     Document Type: Article

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