Characterization of Cell-to-Cell Signaling-Deficient Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Colonizing Intubated Patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 554-562

  Dénervaud, Valérie ^a   TuQuoc, Patrick ^b   Blanc, Dominique ^c   Favre Bonté, Sabine ^b,d   Krishnapillai, Viji ^a   Reimmann, Cornelia ^a   Haas, Dieter ^a   Van Delden, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N BUTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEINASE; PYOCYANINE; RHAMNOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTUBATION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LASR GENE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATOR GENE; RHIR GENE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

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

EID: 10744227921     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.2.554-562.2004     Document Type: Article

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