The role of σB in persistence of Staphylococcus epidermidis foreign body infection

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2827-2836

  Pintens, Valerie ^a   Massonet, Caroline ^a   Merckx, Rita ^a   Vandecasteele, Stefaan ^b   Peetermans, Willy E ^c   Knobloch, Johannes K M ^d   Van Eldere, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AZ Sint Jan AV ^*  (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANYLATE MONOKINASE; PROTEIN AAP; PROTEIN ASP23; PROTEIN ICAA; PROTEIN RSBU; PROTEIN RSBUVW; PROTEIN SIGB; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL RNA; POLYSACCHARIDE INTERCELLULAR ADHESIN; SIGB PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREIGN BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FISCHER 344 RAT; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDWELLING CATHETER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME;

RATTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 53449093958     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/015768-0     Document Type: Article

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