Aerial exposure to the bacterial volatile compound trimethylamine modifies antibiotic resistance of physically separated bacteria by raising culture medium pH

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Létoffé, Sylvie ^a   Audrain, Bianca ^a,b   Bernier, Steve P ^a,d   Delepierre, Muriel ^a,c   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; 2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ACETALDEHYDE; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETOIN; ALCOHOL; AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUTANOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DODECANE; GLYOXYLIC ACID; HEXADECANE; INDOLE; ISOPRENE; PARAQUAT; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL PH; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METHYLAMINES; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84903362189     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00944-13     Document Type: Article

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