Molecular analysis of microbial communities in endotracheal tube biofilms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Cairns, Scott ^a   Thomas, John Gilbert ^b   Hooper, Samuel James ^c   Wise, Matthew Peter ^a   Frost, Paul John ^a   Wilson, Melanie Julia ^c   Lewis, Michael Alexander Oxenham ^c   Williams, David Wynne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUTH FLORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ALGORITHM; BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952690821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014759     Document Type: Article

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