From paul.terhuurne from tno.nl Tue Jun 16 04:54:29 2009 From: paul.terhuurne from tno.nl (Huurne, P.M. (Paul) ter) Date: Tue Jun 16 05:08:20 2009 Subject: [Biofilms] Removal of biofilms from tubes Message-ID: Dear all, I'm looking for the best way to safely remove biofilms from tubes. The tubes are made of PE (poly-urethane). I've seen several reports on sonication for the removal, but in those reports the material is always steel or iron. I'm wondering if the sonication procedure should change if the material is different. The biofilms are being removed to perform a quantative pcr on it. (real-time 16s PCR) Thank you very much, Dhr. P.M. ter Huurne Deltares / TNO Subsurface and Groundwater Systems Geosciences laboratories Princetonlaan 6 P.O. Box 85467 3508 AL Utrecht +31 (0)623371484 paul.terhuurne@deltares.nl paul.terhuurne@tno.nl www.deltares.nl www.tno.nl This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/biofilms/attachments/20090616/dcc80371/attachment.html