Communal living by bacteria and the pathogenesis of urinary tract infections

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1879-1882

  Opal, Steven M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CYSTITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SQUID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMBIONT; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIBRIO FISCHERI; ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIUM; BLADDER; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; URINE; UROTHELIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CYSTITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUORUM SENSING; RECURRENCE; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 38049047120     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040349     Document Type: Article

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