Influences of biofilm structure and antibiotic resistance mechanisms on indirect pathogenicity in a model polymicrobial biofilm

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 5013-5019

  O'Connell, Heather A ^a   Kottkamp, Greg S ^a   Eppelbaum, James L ^a   Stubblefield, Bryan A ^a   Gilbert, Sarah E ^a   Gilbert, Eric S ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CELLS; CHEMOSTATS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS;

AMPICILLIN; BIOFILM STRUCTURE; POLYMICROBIAL BIOFILM; SPECTINOMYCIN;

BIOFILMS;

AMPICILLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILM; PATHOGENICITY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CHEMOSTAT; COMMENSALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERADICATION THERAPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDIRECT PATHOGENICITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANKTON; SPECTINOMYCIN; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33746064094     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02474-05     Document Type: Article

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