Cooperation and virulence of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6339-6344

  Köhler, Thilo ^a   Buckling, Angus ^b   Van Delden, Christian ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infection; Quorum sensing; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LUNG; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WILD TYPE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 65549088935     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811741106     Document Type: Article

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