BdlA, DipA and Induced Dispersion Contribute to Acute Virulence and Chronic Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Li, Yi ^a   Petrova, Olga E ^a   Su, Shengchang ^b   Lau, Gee W ^c   Panmanee, Warunya ^b   Na, Renuka ^b   Hassett, Daniel J ^b   Davies, David G ^a   Sauer, Karin ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; LUNG INFECTION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANKTON; POPULATION DISPERSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LUNG; MICE; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PLANKTON; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84903471713     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004168     Document Type: Article

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