Escherichia coli biofilms formed under low-shear modeled microgravity in a ground-based system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7701-7710

  Lynch, S V ^a,d   Mukundakrishnan, K ^c   Benoit, M R ^a   Ayyaswamy, P S ^b   Matin, A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING;

CHRONIC DISEASES; GROUND-BASED SYSTEM; LOW SHEAR MODELED MICROGRAVITY (LSMMG); PLANKTONIC CELLS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALCOHOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GLASS; PENICILLIN G; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BIOFILM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE; GRAVITY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITY; DISEASE CONTROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INOCULATION; LOW SHEAR MODELED MICROGRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROCARRIER CULTURE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; VESSEL; VIRULENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENICILLINS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33845533004     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01294-06     Document Type: Article

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