Cationic hydrous thorium dioxide colloids--a useful tool for staining negatively charged surface matrices of bacteria for use in energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy.

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Published in BMC Microbiol on June 27, 2006

Authors

Heinrich Lünsdorf1, Ingeborg Kristen, Elke Barth

Author Affiliations

1: GBF-National Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany. hlu@gbf.de

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