An Eye to a Kill: Using Predatory Bacteria to Control Gram-Negative Pathogens Associated with Ocular Infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Shanks, Robert M Q ^a   Davra, Viral R ^b   Romanowski, Eric G ^a   Brothers, Kimberly M ^a   Stella, Nicholas A ^a   Godboley, Dipti ^b   Kadouri, Daniel E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BDELLOVIBRIO; BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; EYE INFECTION; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION CONTROL; MICAVIBRIO AERUGINOSAVORUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS; EUKARYOTA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

CELLS, CULTURED; EYE INFECTIONS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84879151793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066723     Document Type: Article

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