Staphylococcus aureus Shifts toward commensalism in response to corynebacterium species

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Ramsey, Matthew M ^a,b   Freire, Marcelo O ^a,b   Gabrilska, Rebecca A ^c   Rumbaugh, Kendra P ^c   Lemon, Katherine P ^a,d  

^a FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agr system; Commensal bacteria; Corynebacterium; Microbiome; Quorum sensing (QS); Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMMENSALISM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIABETIC FOOT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84988864396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01230     Document Type: Article

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