Biofilms
Subtitle: Recent Advances in their Study and Control
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9789058230935
Subjects: Cellular biology; Microbial Ecology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Microbiology; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology
First sentence: During the last decade it became obvious that the researchers who studied biofilms at the microscale accumulated a collection of experimental results that were impossible to interpret using the traditional conceptual model of biofilms where microorganisms are uniformly distributed in a continuous matrix of extracellular polymers.