Pseudomonas aeruginosa attachment and biofilm development in dynamic environments

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1075-1087

  Ramsey, Matthew M ^a   Whiteley, Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL MOTILITY; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4344645619     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04181.x     Document Type: Article

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