Bacterial plurality as a general mechanism driving persistence in chronic infections

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 437, Issue , 2005, Pages 20-24

  Ehrlich, Garth D ^a,b,c   Hu, Fen Ze ^a,b   Shen, Kai ^a   Stoodley, Paul ^a,b   Post, J Christopher ^a,b  

^a ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTHROPLASTY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PH; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 23244464600     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200508000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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