Conditional production of acyl-homoserine lactone-type quorum-sensing signals in clinical isolates of enterobacteria [2]

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1751-1753

  Wang, Hui ^a   Cai, Tao ^a   Weng, Mengwei ^b   Zhou, Jing ^a   Cao, Huijuan ^a   Zhong, Zengtao ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a,c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; QUORUM SENSING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTEREMIA; CHINA; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEVER; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 33845464706     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46756-0     Document Type: Letter

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