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Autoinducer production and quorum-sensing dependent phenotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa vary according to isolation site during colonization of intubated patients.
BMC microbiology - 18 Apr 2007
Favre-Bonté Sabine, Chamot Eric, Köhler Thilo, Romand Jacques-A, van Delden Christian
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa frequently colonizes and is responsible for severe ventilator-associated pneumonia in intubated patients. A quorum-sensing (QS) circuit, depending on the production of the two QS-signaling molecules (autoinducers, AIs) 3-oxo-C12-HSL and C4-HSL, regulates the production by P. aeruginosa of several virulence factors and is required for biofilm formation. Therefore QS-inhibition...
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