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Probing the Adhesion Forces of Staphylococcus aureus to Central Venous Catheters by Single-Cell Force Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2019

Gubesh Gunaratnam
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
Philipp Jung
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
Jacqueline Willeit
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
Christian Spengler
Affiliation:
Experimental Physics, Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Karin Jacobs
Affiliation:
Experimental Physics, Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Markus Bischoff
Affiliation:
Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany

Abstract

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Type
Biology and Soft Matter (Posters)
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2019 

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[5]The authors acknowledge funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the collaborative research center SFB 1027.Google Scholar