title: Swarming phenomena, basis of a method to identify motile bacteria densitometrically.
abstract: The swarming phenomenon of 18 strains was tested with the intention to identify motile, swarming bacteria. Not all bacteria which are motile in liquid are able to swarm on semisolid nutrient broth, but all swarming bacteria show characteristic swarming developments, resulting in different swarming zones which could be scanned densitometrically. The densitograms are fully reproducible for the same strain and show similarities between strains of one species.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blessing
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Süssmuth
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002465:Cell Movement; D013045:Species Specificity