The role of twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa exit from and translocation of corneal epithelial cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2237-2244

  Alarcon, Irania ^a   Evans, David J ^b,c   Fleiszig, Suzanne M J ^a,c  

^a Program in Microbiology   (United States)

^b TOURO UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COUNT; CELL INVASION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RABBIT; TWITCHING MOTILITY; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL CULTURE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DRUG EFFECT; FIMBRIA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RABBITS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 65549152435     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2785     Document Type: Article

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