Expression of the las and rhl quorum-sensing systems in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa does not correlate with efflux pump expression or antimicrobial resistance

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1250-1253

  Bratu, Simona ^a   Gupta, Jyoti ^a   Quale, John ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

lactamase; Resistance mechanisms; Virulence mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ELASTASE; PROTEIN LAS; PROTEIN LASL; PROTEIN LASR; PROTEIN MEXA; PROTEIN MEXS; PROTEIN MEXT; PROTEIN RHL; PROTEIN RHLL; PROTEIN RHLR; PYOCYANINE; SYNTHETASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGASES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYOCYANINE; QUORUM SENSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33845357713     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl407     Document Type: Article

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