A bacterial cell to cell signal in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-46

  Collier, David N ^a   Anderson, Lisa ^a   McKnight, Susan L ^a   Noah, Terry L ^b   Knowles, Michael ^b   Boucher, Richard ^b   Schwab, Ute ^b   Gilligan, Peter ^b   Pesci, Everett C ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUINOLONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPUTUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0037167482     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00937-0     Document Type: Article

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