Future perspective on host-pathogen interactions during bacterial biofilm formation within the nasopharynx

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-239

  Blanchette, Krystle A ^a   Orihuela, Carlos J ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

asymptomatic carriage; bacteria; biofilm; colonization; nasopharynx; persistence

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CASAMINO ACID; CELL DNA; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CRYOPYRIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; HOST FACTOR; LAMININ; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SIALIC ACID;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOQUIESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOFILMS; CELL WALL; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; NASOPHARYNX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856912636     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.160     Document Type: Review

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