Biofilms: The matrix revisited

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-26

  Branda, Steven S ^a   Vik, Åshild ^a   Friedman, Lisa ^b   Kolter, Roberto ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BIOFILMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 11444270529     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.11.006     Document Type: Review

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