Leitbakteria of microbial biofilm communities causing occlusion of biliary stents

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 859-866

  Wenderoth, Dirk F ^a   Ferslev, Björn ^b   Macarri, Giampiero ^c   Molinari, Gabriella ^a   Lünsdorf, Heinrich ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b General Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BACTERIA; BILE DUCTS; BIOFILMS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 0141788286     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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