Research Catalog

Title

Microbial cell surface hydrophobicity / editors, R.J. Doyle, Mel Rosenberg.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Society for Microbiology, ©1990.

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Additional Authors

• Doyle, Ronald J.
• Rosenberg, Mel.

Description

x, 425 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"... An important milestone in the field of microbial adhesion and should be indispensable to all workers in that discipline" Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology.

Subject

• Bacteria > Adhesion
• Microorganisms > Adhesion
• Hydrophobic surfaces
• Bacterial cell walls
• Cell adhesion
• Microbiology
• Bacterial Adhesion
• Cell Adhesion
• Microbiology
• Surface Properties
• Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
• Cell Wall
• hydrophobicity
• microbiology
• Cell adhesion
• Bacteria > Adhesion
• Bacterial cell walls
• Hydrophobic surfaces
• Microorganisms > Adhesion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Microbial cell surface hydrophobicity: history, measurement and significance; Nature of the hydrophobic effect; Microbial hydrophobicity and fermentation technology; Role of hydrophobic interactions in microbial adhesion to plastics used in medical devices; Hydrophobicity of proteins and bacterial fimbriae; Adhesion of bacteria to plant cells; Hydrophobicity in the aquatic environment; Changes in bacterial surface hydrophobicity during morphogenesis and differentiation; Cell surface hydrophobicity of medically important fungi, especially Candida species; Significance of hydrophobicity in the adhesiveness of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria; Hydrophobic characteristics of Staphylococci; Relative importance of surface free energy as a hydrophobicity measure in bacterial adhesion to solid surfaces; Hydrophobicity of Group A Streptococci to host cells; Hydrophobicity of oral bacteria.

ISBN

• 1555810284
• 9781555810283

LCCN

90001202

OCLC

• ocm22275151
• 22275151
• SCSB-1905064

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library