A simple technique based on a single optical trap for the determination of bacterial swimming pattern.

Bacterial motility is associated to a wide range of biological processes and it plays a key role in the virulence of many pathogens. Here we describe a method to distinguish the dynamic properties of bacteria by analyzing the statistical functions derived from the trajectories of a bacterium trapped...

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Main Authors: Ignacio A Martínez, Susana Campoy, Meritxell Tort, Montserrat Llagostera, Dmitri Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23637869/?tool=EBI