Eight Gram-negative bacteria are 10 000 times more sensitive to cationic detergents than to anionic detergents

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 775-779

  Rajagopal, Soumitra ^a,b   Eis, Nicole ^a,c   Nickerson, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Signature Science LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial detergent resistance; Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide; Homoserine lactones; Pseudomonas biofilms; Sodium dodecyl sulfate

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DETERGENTS;

LIQUID CULTURE; SUPERNANTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CETRIMIDE; DETERGENT; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; URONIC ACID;

BACTERIUM; DETERGENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LIQUID CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIONS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CATIONS; CETRIMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CETYLPYRIDINIUM; DETERGENTS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

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

EID: 1642377485     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w03-100     Document Type: Article

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