Bacterial biofilms: From the natural environment to infectious diseases

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-108

  Hall Stoodley, Luanne ^a   Costerton, J William ^a   Stoodley, Paul ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VISCOELASTICITY; ADAPTATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; VISCOSITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; ELASTICITY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 1842612577     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro821     Document Type: Review

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