Enhancement of vancomycin activity against biofilms by using ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 5331-5337

  He, Nianan ^a,c   Hu, Jian ^b,d   Liu, Huayong ^b   Zhu, Tao ^b   Huang, Beijian ^a   Wang, Xueqin ^b   Wu, Yang ^b   Wang, Wenping ^a   Qu, Di ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MICROBUBBLE; MICROPORE FILTER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TARGETED MICROBUBBLE DESTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; FEMALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 80054701518     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00542-11     Document Type: Article

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