Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutations in lasl and rhll quorum sensing systems result in milder chronic lung infection

Microbiology

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1105-1113

  Wu, Hong ^a   Song, Zhijun ^a,d   Givskov, Michael ^b   Doring, Gerd ^c   Worlitzsch, Dieter ^c   Mathee, Kalai ^d   Rygaard, Jørgen ^e   Høiby, Niels ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Kommunehospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chronic lung infection; Cystic fibrosis; LastI and rhll; N acylhomoserine lactones; Rat model

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LAS1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RHL1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL COUNT; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LUNG; LUNG INFECTION; MAST CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034998532     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-5-1105     Document Type: Article

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