Chemical Communication of Antibiotic Resistance by a Highly Resistant Subpopulation of Bacterial Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  El Halfawy, Omar M ^a,b   Valvano, Miguel A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Alexandria University Faculty of Pharmacy   (Egypt)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; POLYAMINE; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN YCEL; PUTRESCINE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; POLYMYXIN B; PUTRESCINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84879750544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068874     Document Type: Article

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