Fig. 4From: Elucidating bacterial adhesion to mucosal surface by an original AFM approachDeadhesion work for interactions between A. Salmonicida and Y. ruckeri and skin mucins of Atlantic salmon before and after neuraminidase-treatment of mucins. Three experimental parallels were performed with both pathogens, using three different mucin-coated surfaces and three bacterial probes. The analysis is based on 900 force-distance curves recorded on each mucin-coated surface. The histograms display the frequency (%) of magnitudes of deadhesion (nN mm) for the interactions measured with AFM force spectroscopy. Inset: representative force-distance curves obtained when quantifying the interactions between the bacterial probes and the skin mucin samplesBack to article page