Mucosal biofilm formation on middle-ear mucosa in a nonhuman primate model of chronic suppurative otitis media

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1469-1472

  Dohar, Joseph E ^a,b   Hebda, Patricia A ^b   Veeh, Richard ^c   Awad, Marie ^d   Costerton, J William ^f   Hayes, Jay ^f   Ehrlich, Garth D ^e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Animal model; Bacteria; Biofilms; Middle ear; Mucosa; Non Human primates; Otitis media; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HAPLORHINI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23344449391     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000172036.82897.d4     Document Type: Article

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