Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Resistance to the max

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Poole, Keith ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Biofilm; Efflux; Hypermutability; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Resistance; Lactamase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857660045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00065     Document Type: Article

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