Community surveillance enhances Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence during polymicrobial infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1059-1064

  Korgaonkar, Aishwarya ^a   Trivedi, Urvish ^b   Rumbaugh, Kendra P ^b   Whiteley, Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucosamine; PQS; Quorum sensing; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DROSOPHILA; GENE INACTIVATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COINFECTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84872538932     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214550110     Document Type: Article

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