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Introducing Shear Stress in the Study of Bacterial Adhesion
Published on: September 2, 2011
Determination of the shear force at the balance between bacterial attachment and detachment in weak-adherence
M Reza Nejadnik1, Henny C van der Mei, Henk J Busscher
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, 9700 AD Groningen, The Netherlands.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 11, 2007
Abstract:
We introduce a procedure for determining shear forces at the balance between attachment and detachment of bacteria under flow. This procedure can be applied to derive adhesion forces in weak-adherence systems, such as polymer brush coatings, which are currently at the center of attention for their control of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation.
