Increased transfer of a multidrug resistance plasmid in Escherichia coli biofilms at the air-liquid interface

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5079-5088

  Król, Jaroslaw E ^a   Nguyen, Hung Duc ^b   Rogers, Linda M ^a   Beyenal, Haluk ^b   Krone, Stephen M ^a   Top, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR LIQUID INTERFACES; BATCH CULTURE; BIOFILM REACTORS; COLOCALIZATION; E. COLI; FLOW CELLS; GAIN INSIGHT; HIGH DENSITY; HOT SPOT; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MATINGS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPEN FLOW; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; STRUCTURED POPULATION; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; VERTICAL FLOWS;

BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOFILMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; LIQUIDS; OXYGEN; POPULATION STATISTICS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

OXYGEN;

BIOFILM; BIOMONITORING; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG RESISTANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITAT TYPE; LIFESTYLE; LIQUID; MICROSCOPY; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PLASMID; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOFILM; CELL COUNT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

BIOFILMS; CELL COUNT; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79961034817     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00090-11     Document Type: Article

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