Conjugative plasmid transfer and adhesion dynamics in an Escherichia coli biofilm

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6783-6791

  Ong, Cheryl Lynn Y ^a   Beatson, Scott A ^a   McEwan, Alastair G ^a   Schembri, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION DYNAMICS; BIOFILM FORMATION; E. COLI; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; PUTATIVE GENES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BIOFILTERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

BIOFILMS;

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BIOFILM; GENE EXPRESSION; INCOMPATIBILITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLASMID; SECRETION; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CATHETER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70350516773     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00974-09     Document Type: Article

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