Chronic pulmonary disease with Mycobacterium abscessus complex is a biofilm infection

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1823-1826

  Qvist, Tavs ^a   Eickhardt, Steffen ^b   Kragh, Kasper N ^b   Andersen, Claus B ^a   Iversen, Martin ^a   Høiby, Niels ^a,b   Bjarnsholt, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COMPLICATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOFILMS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA;

EID: 84949009666     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01102-2015     Document Type: Letter

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