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Brözel, VS
MSc PhD(Pret) - Associate Professor

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Contact details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3262
Fax number: 012 420 3266
E-mail address: vsbrozel@postino.up.ac.za

Research interests:

Bacterial pathogens in water

Biofilm physiology

Research output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals

Steyn B, Brözel VS: 2001. Novel method for the proteomic investigation of a dairy-associated Bacillus cereus biofilm. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 194, pp 47-51.

Steyn B, Oosthuizen DJ, MacDonald R, Theron J, Brözel VS: 2001. The use of glass wool as an attachment surface for studying phenotypic changes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Proteomics, 1, pp 871-879.

Theron J, Morar D, Du Preez M, Brözel VS, Venter SN: 2001. A sensitive seminested PCR method for the detection of Shigella in spiked environmental water samples. Water Research, 35, pp 869-874.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings

MacDonald R, Botha AJ, Theron J, Brözel VS: 2001. Use of low vacuum scanning electron microscopy in determining biofilm structure. , pp 51-51.

MacDonald R, Theron J, Brözel VS: 2001. The role of alternative sigma factor rpoS in determining the biofilms structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. , pp 50-50.

Peta ME, Lindsay D, Brözel VS, Von Holy A: 2001. Viability evaluation of a dairy-associated Bacillus cereus following sanitizer treatment. , pp 45-45.