Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems in a mouse model of chronic respiratory infection

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 515-518

  Imamura, Yoshifumi ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Ohno, Hideaki ^a   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Mizuta, Yohei ^a   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^a   Tsukamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LASI GENE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RSLI GENE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRONCHI; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIGASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 20344391909     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46004-0     Document Type: Article

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