Effect of subinhibitory antibiotic concentrations on polysaccharide intercellular adhesin expression in biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3357-3363

  Rachid, S ^a   Ohlsen, K ^a   Witte, W ^a   Hacker, J ^a   Ziebuhr, W ^a  

^a Inst for Molek Infektionsbiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; STREPTOGRAMIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRESS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TETRACYCLINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 0034425542     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.12.3357-3363.2000     Document Type: Article

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