3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2013, Pages 18380-18385

  Connell, Jodi L ^a   Ritschdorff, Eric T ^a   Whiteley, Marvin ^a   Shear, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Microfabrication; Multiphoton lithography; Polymicrobial

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GELATIN; OXYGEN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL INTERACTION; GEOMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; MICROFABRICATION; MULTIPHOTON LITHOGRAPHY; POLYMICROBIAL;

BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COPYING PROCESSES; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84887478311     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309729110     Document Type: Article

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