Bacterial adherence to polystyrene: a replica method of screening for bacterial hydrophobicity
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (2) , 375-377
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.42.2.375-377.1981
Abstract
A simple replica method is described for the rapid identification of colonies of bacteria which adhere to polystyrene. A correlation was found between the adherence of bacterial strains to polystyrene and cell surface hydrophobicity, suggesting the use of this technique in screening for cell surface mutants and in the isolation of hydrophobic bacteria from nature.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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