Excretions/Secretions from Bacteria-Pretreated Maggot Are More Effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Ke chun ^a   Sun, Xin juan ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Liu, Lan ^a   Cai, Ying ^a   Chen, Yin chen ^a   Luo, Ning ^a   Yu, Jian hua ^a   Cai, Da yong ^a   Wang, Ai ping ^a  

^a No 454 Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; MAGGOT THERAPY; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; BODILY SECRETIONS; DIPTERA; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LUCILIA SERICATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84870704183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049815     Document Type: Article

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