Bacterial Resistance and Challenges of Biocide Plastics

Antimicrobial Polymers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-49

  Ahmed, Nibras A A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacterial biofilm, resistance mechanisms; Bacterial resistance, and biocide plastic; Plastic biocide, microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886699686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118150887.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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