Bacteria display differential growth and adhesion characteristics on human hair shafts

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Kerk, Swat Kim, Lai, Hui Ying, Sze, Siu Kwan, Ng, Kee Woei, Schmidtchen, Artur, Adav, Sunil Shankar
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences; Hair Shaft; S. Aureus
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89683; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46324

Apart from the skin surface, hair represents a significant tissue component with a capacity of bacterial interactions. New information can be obtained about hair function through the characterization of bacterial adherence, colonization, and responses to hair shafts per se. In this proof-of-principl...