Staphylococcus epidermidis recovered from indwelling catheters exhibit enhanced biofilm dispersal and self-renewal through downregulation of agr

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dai, Lu ^a,b   Yang, Liang ^c   Parsons, Chris ^b   Findlay, Victoria J ^d   Molin, Søren ^c   Qin, Zhiqiang ^a,b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autolysis; Biofilm; Extracellular DNA; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

AUTOLYSIN;

AGR GENE; ARTICLE; ATLE GENE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INDWELLING CATHETER; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BIOFILMS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84861949116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-102     Document Type: Article

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