Abundance of the Quorum-Sensing Factor Ax21 in Four Strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Correlates with Mortality Rate in a New Zebrafish Model of Infection

Mario Ferrer-Navarro; Raquel Planell; Daniel Yero; Elías Mongiardini; Gerard Torrent; Pol Huedo; Paula Martínez; Nerea Roher; Simon Mackenzie; Isidre Gibert; Xavier Daura

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067207

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Abundance of the Quorum-Sensing Factor Ax21 in Four Strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Correlates with Mortality Rate in a New Zebrafish Model of Infection

Mario Ferrer-Navarro ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mario Ferrer-Navarro, Raquel Planell

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Raquel Planell ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mario Ferrer-Navarro, Raquel Planell

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Daniel Yero,

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Elías Mongiardini,

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Gerard Torrent,

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Pol Huedo,

Affiliations Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Paula Martínez,

Affiliations Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Nerea Roher,

Affiliation Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Simon Mackenzie,

Affiliations Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Isidre Gibert ,

* E-mail: Xavier.Daura@uab.cat (XD); Isidre.Gibert@uab.cat (IG)

Affiliations Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Xavier Daura

* E-mail: Xavier.Daura@uab.cat (XD); Isidre.Gibert@uab.cat (IG)

Affiliations Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Abundance of the Quorum-Sensing Factor Ax21 in Four Strains of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Correlates with Mortality Rate in a New Zebrafish Model of Infection

Mario Ferrer-Navarro,
Raquel Planell,
Daniel Yero,
Elías Mongiardini,
Gerard Torrent,
Pol Huedo,
Paula Martínez,
Nerea Roher,
Simon Mackenzie,
Isidre Gibert

Published: June 26, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067207

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