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Volume 8, Number 9, September 2002

Perspective

Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces

Rodney M. Donlan*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 
 
Figure 3. Polymicrobic biofilm grown on a stainless steel surface in a laboratory potable water biofilm reactor...
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Figure 3. Polymicrobic biofilm grown on a stainless steel surface in a laboratory potable water biofilm reactor for 14 days, then stained with 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and examined by epifluorescence microscopy. Bar, 20 µm. Photograph by Ricardo Murga and Rodney Donlan, CDC.

 

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