Adherence and motility characteristics of clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-51

  Eijkelkamp, Bart A ^a   Stroeher, Uwe H ^a   Hassan, Karl A ^b   Papadimitrious, Michael S ^a   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Brown, Melissa H ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian clinical strains; Biofilm formation; Eukaryotic cell adherence; Swarming; Twitching; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIMBRIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; EUKARYOTA; PILA;

EID: 80052744647     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02362.x     Document Type: Article

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