Biofilms: Investigative Methods and Applications

Preface. List of Contributors. Steps in Biofilm Sampling and Characterization in Biofouling Cases. Rotating Annular Reactors for Controlled Growth of Biofilms. Microcalorimetry for Evaluating Countermeasures against Biofouling in Water Circulation Systems. Extraction and Quantification of Extracellular Polymeric Substances from Wastewater. Cell Biomass Determination in Sewer Biofilms and a Monospecies Pseudomonas putida Biofilm. Simultaneous Morphological and Population Analyses of Environmental Biofilms. Development of a New Method to Determine the Metabolic Potential of Bacteria in Drinking Water Biofilms. Formation and Bacterial Composition of Young, Natural Biofilms Obtained from Public Bank-Filtered Drinking Water Systems. The Use of Immunological Techniques and Scanning Confocal Laser Microscopy for the Characterization of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Pseudomonas fluorescens, Atrazine-Utilizing Biofilms. The in situ Detection of a Microbial Biofilm Community on Karst Rock Coupon in a Groundwater Habitat. Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Gradients in Fixed-Bed Biofilm Reactors for Wastewater Treatment. Quantitative Microscopy in Biofilm Studies. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy of Biofilms. Microelectrodes and Tube Reactors in Biofilm Research. Index.