Type 1 and type 2 strains of Mycoplasma pneumoniae form different biofilms

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 737-747

  Simmons, Warren L ^a   Daubenspeck, James M ^a   Osborne, James D ^b   Balish, Mitchell F ^c   Waites, Ken B ^d   Dybvig, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CULTURE MEDIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84875734773     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.064782-0     Document Type: Article

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