Staphylococcal infections: Mechanisms of biofilm maturation and detachment as critical determinants of pathogenicity

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-188

  Otto, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

biofilm; phenol soluble modulins; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AUTOLYSIN; BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; NUCLEASE; PEPTIDE; PHENOL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; SURFACTANT; TEICHOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CATHETER INFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INDWELLING CATHETER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84873033968     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: 1545326X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-042711-140023     Document Type: Article

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