[14] Transcriptional analysis of genes involved in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

TJO Wyckoff, DJ Wozniak - Methods in enzymology, 2001 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common gram-
negative bacterium found mainly in soil and water that poses minimal threat to healthy
individuals, and is the major cause of death in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF). In
these patients, P. aeruginosa causes increasingly serious chronic lung infections by forming
biofilm communities on the lung epithelium. Thus, biofilm formation by P. aeruginosa is a
topic of significant medical importance. Laboratories study the transcriptional control of …