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Determination of the Shear Force at the Balance between Bacterial Attachment and Detachment in Weak-Adherence Systems, Using a Flow Displacement Chamber
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Determination of the Shear Force at the Balance between Bacterial Attachment and Detachment in Weak-Adherence Systems, Using a Flow Displacement Chamber

M. Reza Nejadnik, Henny C. van der Mei, Henk J. Busscher and Willem Norde
Applied and environmental microbiology, Vol.74(3), pp.916-919
02/01/2008
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01557-07
PMCID: PMC2227715
PMID: 18065607
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2227715View
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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.
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