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- Editors:
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Dwayne C. Savage
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University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
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Madilyn Fletcher
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University of Warwick, Coventry, England
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction and Description of Surfaces
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- J. William Costerton, Thomas J. Marrie, K.-J. Cheng
Pages 3-43
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- Itzhak Ofek, Halina Lis, Nathan Sharon
Pages 71-88
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- J. Gould, D. H. Northcote
Pages 89-110
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Mechanisms of Adhesion
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Front Matter
Pages 131-131
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- Gordon D. Christensen, W. Andrew Simpson, Edwin H. Beachey
Pages 279-305
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Consequences of Adhesion
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Front Matter
Pages 337-337
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- Steven G. Pueppke, Daniel A. Kluepfel
Pages 401-435
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Back Matter
Pages 465-476
About this book
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 involved in adhesion processes. Whether a particular microorganism can adhere to a certain substratum depends on the properties of the microbial strain itself and on charac teristics of the substratum and of the environment.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Dwayne C. Savage
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University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Madilyn Fletcher
