[Evaluation of the hydrophobicity of bacterial cells by measuring their adherence to chloroform drops]
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E V Serebriakova1, I V Darmov, N P Medvedev
1Research Institute of Microbiology, the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, Kirov, 610000 Russia.
Mikrobiologiia
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
A simple method for measuring the hydrophobicity of bacterial cells is proposed, which is based on the spectrophotometric evaluation of cell adherence to chloroform drops in a biphasic water-chloroform mixture.
