Survival strategies of infectious biofilms

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-40

  Fux, C A ^a   Costerton, J W ^a   Stewart, P S ^a   Stoodley, P ^a,b  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; IN VITRO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PLANKTON; PROTEOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11444263858     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.11.010     Document Type: Review

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