Riddle of biofilm resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 999-1007

  Lewis, K ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMIPENEM; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LYASE; MEMBRANE AFFECTING AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TOBRA; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CATHETER INFECTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; DEVICE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GRAFT INFECTION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MATERIALS; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TOOTH PLAQUE; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035077009     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.4.999-1007.2001     Document Type: Short Survey

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