Ability of Candida albicans mutants to induce Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin resistance during polymicrobial biofilm formation

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3746-3755

  Harriott, Melphine M ^a   Noverr, Mairi C ^b,c  

^a Henry Ford Health System Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 77956132510     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00573-10     Document Type: Article

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