Dynamics of bacterial colonisation in the respiratory tract of patients with cystic fibrosis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-39

  Renders, Nicole ^a   Verbrugh, Henri ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis (CF); Haemophilus influenzae; Longitudinal colonisation; Lung infection; Microbial typing; Persistence; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Re infection; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARRIER STATE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LUNG; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0010459544     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-1348(01)00004-1     Document Type: Article

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