Escherichia coli attachment to model particulates: The effects of bacterial cell characteristics and particulate properties

• Xiao Liang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Chunyu Liao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Michelle L. Soupir ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: msoupir@iastate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3449-1146

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• Laura R. Jarboe,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Michael L. Thompson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Philip M. Dixon

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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