Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Adhesion Proceedings of the Second Gulf Shores Symposium, held at Gulf Shores State Park Resort, May 6–8 1988, sponsored by the Department of Biochemistry, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama / edited by Lech Switalski, Magnus Höök, Edwin Beachey.
It has been 80 years since the subject of bacterial adhesion to surfaces was first brought forth, but only in the last two decades has the importance of this subject been recognized by medical microbiologists. The fact that bacterial attachment to the host tissue is a prerequisite for infection unde...
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