| Literature DB >> 10858254 |
J P Pearson1, M Feldman, B H Iglewski, A Prince.
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Cell-to-cell signaling controls many virulence genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We tested the virulence of las and rhl quorum-sensing mutants in neonatal mice. A lasI rhlI double mutant was nearly avirulent, and the respective single mutant strains were reduced in virulence compared with the wild-type strain. Quorum sensing plays a role in P. aeruginosa pneumonia in neonatal mice.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10858254 PMCID: PMC101761 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4331-4334.2000
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441