Haemophilus influenzae biofilms: hypothesis or fact?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 95-100

  Moxon, E Richard ^a   Sweetman, Wendy A ^a   Deadman, Mary E ^a   Ferguson, David J P ^b   Hood, Derek W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; EFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFE CYCLE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

BIOFILMS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 40049085449     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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