Multi-species biofilms: Living with friendly neighbors

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 990-1004

  Elias, Sivan ^a   Banin, Ehud ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Biofilm; Cell cell communication; Metabolic interaction; Polymicrobial; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDERMIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PERIODONTITIS; PHENOTYPE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SERRATIA PLYMUTHICA; SPECIES; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; VEILLONELLA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILM; CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION; METABOLIC INTERACTION; POLYMICROBIAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84864416657     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00325.x     Document Type: Review

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