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Study of the phenomena of bacterial adhesion to surfaces has accelerated considerably over the past 10 to 15 years. During this period, microbiologists have become increasingly aware that attachment to a substratum influences considerably the activities and structures of microbial cells. Moreover, in many cases attached communities of cells have important effects on their substratum and the surrounding environment. Such phenomena are now known to be important in plant and animal hosts, water and soil ecosystems, and man-made structures and industrial processes. Much work on microbial adhesion in the early 1970s was descriptive. Those studies were important for detecting and describing the phenomena of bacterial adhesion to substrata in various environments; the findings have been presented in numerous recently published, excellent books and reviews. In some studies, attempts were made to elucidate some funda mental principles controlling adhesion processes in different environments containing a variety of microorganisms. Common threads have been observed occasionally in different studies. Taken as a whole, however, the information has revealed that many disparate factors are involv

Who reads Bacterial Adhesion : Mechanisms and Physiological Significance?

Author

J. William Costerton, Thomas J. Marrie, K.-J. Cheng (auth.), Dwayne C. Savage, Madilyn Fletcher (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461565147

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Biology