Pathogenesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm: A Review

FF Tuon, LR Dantas, PH Suss, VS Tasca Ribeiro - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with several human infections, mainly related to
healthcare services. In the hospital, it is associated with resistance to several antibiotics …

Bacterial quorum sensing in complex and dynamically changing environments

S Mukherjee, BL Bassler - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Quorum sensing is a process of bacterial cell-to-cell chemical communication that relies on
the production, detection and response to extracellular signalling molecules called …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms: Host Response and Clinical Implications in Lung Infections

NM Maurice, B Bedi, RT Sadikot - American journal of respiratory …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major health challenge that causes recalcitrant multidrug-
resistant infections, especially in immunocompromised and hospitalized patients. P …

Quorum quenching: role in nature and applied developments

C Grandclément, M Tannières, S Moréra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Quorum sensing (QS) refers to the capacity of bacteria to monitor their population density
and regulate gene expression accordingly: the QS-regulated processes deal with …

Antibiotic alternatives: the substitution of antibiotics in animal husbandry?

G Cheng, H Hao, S Xie, X Wang, M Dai… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
It is a common practice for decades to use of sub-therapeutic dose of antibiotics in food-
animal feeds to prevent animals from diseases and to improve production performance in …

Quorum sensing inhibitors: an overview

VC Kalia - Biotechnology advances, 2013 - Elsevier
Excessive and indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections has lead to the
emergence of multiple drug resistant strains. Most infectious diseases are caused by …

Exploiting quorum sensing to confuse bacterial pathogens

B LaSarre, MJ Federle - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cell-cell communication, or quorum sensing, is a widespread phenomenon in bacteria that
is used to coordinate gene expression among local populations. Its use by bacterial …

Quorum sensing inhibitors as anti-biofilm agents

G Brackman, T Coenye - Current pharmaceutical design, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Biofilms are microbial sessile communities characterized by cells that are attached to a
substratum or interface or to each other, are embedded in a self-produced matrix of …

Dietary amino acids and the gut‐microbiome‐immune axis: physiological metabolism and therapeutic prospects

N Ma, X Ma - Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dietary amino acids (AAs) are not only absorbed and metabolized by enterocytes but also
available to the microbiota in the gut in mammals. In addition to serving as the materials for …

Quorum sensing: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

CM Waters, BL Bassler - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. As in higher
organisms, the information supplied by these molecules is critical for synchronizing the …