Temperature-Dependent Bacteriostatic Activity of Serratia marcescens

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 236-240

  Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Yuasa, Junko ^a   Baba, Masahiro ^a   Tanikawa, Taichiro ^a   Nakagawa, Yoji ^a   Matsuyama, Tohey ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

bacteriostatic activity; Serratia marcescens; Thermo response

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010258730     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.236     Document Type: Article

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