Innovative strategies for combating biofilm-based infections

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 831, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-91

  Melander, Roberta J ^a   Melander, Christian ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOIMIDAZOLE; ALKALOID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTOINDUCING PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; FUSIDIC ACID; HALOGENATED FURANONE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE; METAL ION; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; NATURAL PRODUCT; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; MOLECULAR LIBRARY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; CHELATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRY MASS; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PHYSIOLOGY; THERAPEUTIC USE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES;

EID: 84926676216     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09782-4_6     Document Type: Article

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