Detection of Differential Gene Expression in Biofilm-Forming versus Planktonic Populations of Staphylococcus aureus Using Micro-Representational-Difference Analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2958-2965

  Becker, Petra ^a   Hufnagle, Wendy ^b   Peters, Georg ^a   Herrmann, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0035403493     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.2958-2965.2001     Document Type: Article

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