Pseudomonas aeruginosa population structure revisited under environmental focus: Impact of water quality and phage pressure

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1952-1967

  Selezska, Katherina ^a   Kazmierczak, Marlon ^b   Müsken, Mathias ^c   Garbe, Julia ^d   Schobert, Max ^e   Häussler, Susanne ^a,c   Wiehlmann, Lutz ^f   Rohde, Christine ^b   Sikorski, Johannes ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOFILM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RIVER; SEROTYPING; SURVIVAL; VIROLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOFILMS; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RIVERS; SEROTYPING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84864387005     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02719.x     Document Type: Article

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