An assay to screen bacterial adhesion to mucus biomolecules

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-82

  Tkachenko, A ^a   Da Silva, L ^a   Hearne, J ^a   Parveen, S ^a   Waguespack, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Bacteria; Fish; Mucus; Ultracentrifugation; Vibrio vulnificus

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOMOLECULES; BODY FLUIDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CENTRIFUGATION; FISH; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FISH MUCUS; GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION TECHNIQUES; LIPID PROTEINS; MUCUS; RAPID SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIA;

CARBOHYDRATE; LIPID; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOTTING; CENTRIFUGE; FISH; ISOPYCNIC DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; SCREENING; TILAPIA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TILAPIA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 84871396707     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12003     Document Type: Note

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