Does Pseudomonas aeruginosa use intercellular signalling to build biofilm communities?

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1841-1849

  Kirisits, Mary Jo ^a   Parsek, Matthew R ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; LECTIN; MUCIN; PYOVERDINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CARBON SOURCE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

BIOFILMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33750579748     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00817.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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