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A rapid method for bacterial chemotaxis in a spatial gradient of chemoeffectors has been developed. The method is based on turbidimetric measurement of bacteria movement in a chemoeffector gradient created in a spectrophotometer cuvette. The method was verified onEscherichia coli mutants with known chemotactic properties.
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Zhulin, I.B., Gibel, I.B. & Ignatov, V.V. A rapid method for the measurement of bacterial chemotaxis. Current Microbiology 22, 307–309 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02091959
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