Insight into the microbial multicellular lifestyle via flow-cell technology and confocal microscopy

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-103

  Pamp, Sünje Johanna ^a,b   Sternberg, Claus ^a   Tolker Nielsen, Tim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Confocal microscopy; Fluidic device; Fluorescent reporter; Subpopulation

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; EDETIC ACID; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE EQUIPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LEVEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEVICE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENTEROCOCCUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLOW CELL TECHNOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KLEBSIELLA; LABELING INDEX; LABORATORY; LUNG INFECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BIOFILMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 60849103083     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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