Measurement of the kinetics of bacterial adherence to hexadecane in polystyrene cuvettes |
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Authors: | Danny Sharon Ronit Bar-Ness Mel Rosenberg |
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Affiliation: | School of Dental Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel;Department of Human Microbiology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel |
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Abstract: | Abstract The kinetics of bacterial adherence to hexadecane were measured using disposable polystyrene cuvettes. The rate of adherence was exponential, and was itself linearly dependent on the water:hexadecane ratio employed. The dependency of the rate of adherence on the water:hexadecane ratio, termed the removal coefficient, varied from 4.7 min−1 for Streptococcus pyogenes to 72 min−1 for Acinetobacter calcoaceticus . The removal coefficient of Serratia marcescens was a function of growth temperature, 48 min−1 following growth at 30°C as opposed to 5.8 min−1 for 35°C-grown cells. |
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Keywords: | Hexadecane adherence Streptococcus pyogenes Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Serratia marcescens |
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