Role of biofilms antimicrobial resistance

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Donlan, Rodney M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CELLS; MICROORGANISMS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE; INFECTION; PATHOGENS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFUROXIME; CEFUZONAM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLEROXACIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LATAMOXEF; NOVOBIOCIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TOSUFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; DRUG PENETRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0034327420     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-200011000-00037     Document Type: Review

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