Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Bacterial adherence as a mechanism of airway colonization

  • Current Topic: Editorial
  • Published:
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Johanson, W. G., Pierce, A. K., Sanford, J. P., Thomas, G. D. Nosocomial respiratory infections with gram-negative bacilli: the significance of colonization of the respiratory tract. Annals of Internal Medicine 1972, 77: 701–706.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Johanson, W. G., Pierce, A. K., Sanford, J. P. Changing pharyngeal flora of hospitalized patients: emergence of gram-negative bacilli. New England Journal of Medicine 1969, 281: 1137–1140.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Laurenzi, G. A., Potter, R. T., Kass, E. H. Bacteriologic flora of the lower respiratory tract. New England Journal of Medicine 1961, 265: 1273–1278.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Lees, A. W., McNaught, W. Bacteriology of the lower respiratory tract secretions, sputum, and upper respiratory tract secretions in “normals” and chronic bronchitics. Lancet 1959, ii: 1112–1115.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Beachey, E. H. Bacterial adherence: adhesin-receptor interactions mediating the attachment of bacteria to mucosal surfaces. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1981, 143: 325–345.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Johanson, W. G., Higuchi, J. H., Chaudhuri, T. R., Woods, D. E. Bacterial adherence to epithelial cells in bacillary colonization of the respiratory tract. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1980, 121: 55–63.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Huxley, E. J., Viroslav, J., Gray, W. R., Piece, A. K. Pharyngeal aspiration in normal subjects and patients with depressed consciousness. American Journal of Medicine 1978, 64: 564–568.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Niederman, M. S., Merrill, W. W., Ferranti, R. D., Pagano, K. M., Palmer, L. B., Reynolds, H. Y. Nutritional status and bacterial binding in the lower respiratory tract in patients with chronic tracheostomy. Annals of Internal Medicine 1984, 100: 795–800.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Palmer, L. B., Niederman, M. S., Matthay, R. A. Nosocomial pneumona: a threat to your patient? Journal of Respiratory Disease 1984, 5: 80–98.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Higuchi, J. H., Johanson, W. G. The relationship between adherence ofPseudomonas aeruginosa to upper respiratory cells in vitro and susceptibility to colonization in vivo. Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 1980, 95: 698–705.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Woods, D. E., Straus, D. C., Johanson, W. G., Bass, J. A. Role of salivary protease activity in adherence of gram-negative bacilli to mammalian buccal epithelial cells in vivo. Journal of Clinical Investigation 1981, 68: 1435–1440.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Niederman, M. S., Rafferty, T. D., Sasaki, C. T., Merrill, W. W., Matthay, R. A., Reynolds, H. Y. Comparison of bacterial adherence to ciliated and squamous epithelial cells obtained from the human respiratory tract. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1983, 127: 85–90.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Niederman, M. S., Ferranti, R. D., Ziegler, A., Merrill, W. W., Reynolds, H. Y. Respiratory infection complicating long-term tracheostomy: the implication of persistent gram-negative tracheobronchial colonization. Chest 1984, 85: 39–44.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Schwartz, S. N., Dowling, J. N., Benkovic, C., De Quittner-Buchanan, M., Prostko, T., Yee, R. B. Sources of gram-negative bacilli colonizing the tracheae of intubated patients. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1978, 138: 227–231.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. Pingleton, S. K., Hinthorn, D. R., Liu, C. Enteral nutrition in patients receiving mechanical ventilation: multiple sources of tracheal colonization include the stomach. American Journal of Medicine 1986, 80: 827–832.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  16. Driks, M. R., Craven, D. E., Celli, B. R., Manning, M., Burke, R. A., Garvin, G. M., Kunches, L. M., Farber, H. W., Wedel, S. A., McCabe, W. R. Nosocomial pneumonia in intubated patients given sucralfate as compared with antacids or histamine type 2 blockers: the role of gastric colonization. New England Journal of Medicine 1987, 317: 1376–1382.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  17. Franklin, A. L., Todd, T., Gurman, G., Black, D., Mankinen-Irvin, P. M., Irvin, R. T. Adherence ofPseudomonas aeruginosa to cilia of human tracheal epithelial cells. Infection and Immunity 1987, 55: 1523–1525.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  18. Doig, P., Smith, N. R., Todd, T., Irvin, R. T. Characterization of the binding ofPseudomonas aeruginosa alginate to human epithelial cells. Infection and Immunity 1987, 55: 1517–1522.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  19. Woods, D. E., Straus, D. C., Johanson, W. G., Berry, V. K., Bass, J. A. Role of pili in adherence ofPseudomonas aeruginosa to mammalian buccal epithelial cells. Infection and Immunity 1980, 29: 1146–1151.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  20. Palmer, L. B., Merrill, W. W., Niederman, M. S., Ferranti, R. D., Reynolds, H. Y. Bacterial adherence to respiratory tract cells: relationships between in vivo and in vitro pH and bacterial attachment. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1986, 133: 784–788.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  21. Niederman, M. S., Merrill, W. W., Polomski, L., Gee, J. B. L., Reynolds, H. Y. Influence of sputum IgA and elastase on tracheal cell bacterial adherence. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1986, 133: 255–260.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  22. Vishwanath, S., Ramphal, R. Adherence ofPseudomonas aeruginosa to human tracheobronchial mucin. Infection and Immunity 1984, 45: 197–202.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  23. Sugarman, B., Donata, S. T. Effect of antibiotics on the adherence ofEnterobactericeae to human buccal cells. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1979, 140: 622–625.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Winthrop-University Hospital, 259 First Street, 11501, Mineola, New York, USA

    M. S. Niederman

Authors
  1. M. S. Niederman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Niederman, M.S. Bacterial adherence as a mechanism of airway colonization. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 8, 15–20 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964114

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01964114

Search

Navigation