Higher Speed of Yeast Adherence in Comparison with Speed of Bacteria Adherence to Silica Microparticles
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2018-10-01
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The current study explored the possibility to attach bacteria and yeasts to micro-silica particles. The aim of the study was to determine possible differences in the speed of rates of turbidity (or speed of adherence) between suspensions of bacteria and yeasts with and without silica micro-particles. Some important findings were demonstrated, which might be promising for developing of a new diagnostic approach to distinguish bacteria from yeasts. Addition of SiO2 beads to bacterial suspensions resulted in a significantly faster decrease of turbidity rates in comparison with corresponding suspensions without SiO2 beads. However, yeasts adhered to silica micro particles quicker in comparison with the speed of adherence of bacteria to silica.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Dzintars Ozoliņš et al.
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bacteria, silica microparticles, turbidity rate, yeasts, 1.6 Biological sciences, 3.1 Basic medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, General
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Ozoliņš, D & Žileviča, A 2018, 'Higher Speed of Yeast Adherence in Comparison with Speed of Bacteria Adherence to Silica Microparticles', Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 298-301. https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2018-0033