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Investigating the Mucoid Switch of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at Oil-Water Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

Stephen D. House*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Environmental TEM Catalysis Consortium (ECC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Sricharani Rao Balmuri
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Judith C. Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Environmental TEM Catalysis Consortium (ECC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Tagbo H.R. Niepa*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Center for Medicine and the Microbiome, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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*Corresponding authors: sdh46@pitt.edu and tniepa@pitt.edu
*Corresponding authors: sdh46@pitt.edu and tniepa@pitt.edu

Abstract

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Type
Utilizing Microscopy for Research and Diagnosis of Diseases in Humans, Plants and Animals
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2019 

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[5]This work is supported by NSF-DMREF through contract No. CHE-1534630 (SDH, JCY) and Niepa Laboratory start-up funds (SRB, THRN) provided by the U. Pitt Swanson School of Engineering. The microscopy was performed at the Nanoscale Fabrication and Characterization Facility (NFCF) at U. Pitt. The ECC is funded through U. Pitt and Hitachi High Technologies. The authors would like to thank Dr. Kevin Alby (U.Penn) for providing the bacterial isolates. Stephen D. House and Sricharani Rao Balmuri contributed equally to this workGoogle Scholar