Anti-pathogenic strategies for fighting pseudomonas aeruginosa infections- probiotic soluble compounds as inhibitors of quorum sensing genes expression

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-161

  Cotar, Ani Ioana ^a,b   Saviuc, Crina ^a,c   Niţǎ, Roxana Andreea ^c   Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia ^d   Laza, Veronica ^a   Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c Biotehnos SA   (Romania)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anti pathogenic strategy; Multidrug resistance; P. aeruginosa; Probiotics; Quorum sensing inhibitors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION;

ANTI-PATHOGENIC STRATEGY; GENES EXPRESSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANTS; P.AERUGINOSA; PATHOGENICS; PROBIOTICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM-SENSING INHIBITORS; SOLUBLE COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

EID: 84879155362     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1385272811317020012     Document Type: Article

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