Bacteria Use Type IV Pili to Walk Upright and Detach from Surfaces

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2010-10-08

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1194238PMID 20929769
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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