Laser disruption of biofilm

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1168-1173

  Krespi, Yosef P ^a,b   Stoodley, Paul ^a,b   Hall Stoodley, Luanne ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Laser; Shockwave

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; STAINLESS STEEL; SUTURE MATERIAL; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BROTH DILUTION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRONICS; FIBER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OTORRHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHOCK WAVE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SUTURE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; BONE SCREW; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SOLID STATE LASER; SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA;

BIOFILMS; BONE SCREWS; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAINLESS STEEL; SUTURES;

EID: 47149104058     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31816ed59d     Document Type: Article

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