Indirect pathogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis in Polymicrobial Otitis media occurs via interspecies quorum signaling

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Armbruster, Chelsie E ^a   Hong, Wenzhou ^a   Pang, Bing ^a   Weimer, Kristin E D ^a   Juneau, Richard A ^a   Turner, James ^a   Edward Swords, W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LUXS GENE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MIXED INFECTION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS;

EID: 77958186705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00102-10     Document Type: Article

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