Pseudomonas biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance are linked to phenotypic variation

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6882, 2002, Pages 740-743

  Drenkard, Eliana ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY;

BIOFILMS;

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

MEDICINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; LUNG; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SELECTION (GENETICS); SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

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

EID: 0037129218     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416740a     Document Type: Article

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