Garlic blocks quorum sensing and promotes rapid clearing of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3873-3880

  Bjarnsholt, Thomas ^a   Jensen, Peter Østrup ^b   Rasmussen, Thomas B ^a   Christophersen, Lars ^b   Calum, Henrik ^b   Hentzer, Morten ^c   Hougen, Hans Petter ^d   Rygaard, Jørgen ^e   Moser, Claus ^b   Eberl, Leo ^f   Høiby, Niels ^b   Givskov, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Kommune Hospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GARLIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GARLIC; LUNG; MICE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 29244461453     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27955-0     Document Type: Article

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