3 University Hospital Osijek, Osijek, Croatia. 4 Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia. 5 Osijek University Medical School, Osijek, Croatia.
Coll. Antropol. 28 (2004) 2: 675–680 UDC 616.98:616.24-008.4 Original scientific paper
Adherence Ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis to Two Different Epithelial Cell Lines Jasmina Vrane{,1 Dorian Tje{i}-Drinkovi},2 Ivan @ulj,3 Vladimira Kru`i},4 Branko Turkovi}4 and Svjetlana Mari}5 1 2 3 4 5
Zagreb University Medical School and Zagreb Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia University Medical Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia University Hospital Osijek, Osijek, Croatia Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia Osijek University Medical School, Osijek, Croatia
ABSTRACT The ability of 59 wild-type strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to adhere to the HeLa and Buffalo Green Monkey Kidney (BGMK) cells was investigated. Twenty strains were isolated from sputa of cystic fibrosis patients, while 19 strains were isolated from tracheal aspirates and 20 from bronchial secretions of patients without cystic fibrosis, and they were used as a control group of strains. The statistically significant difference between adherence ability of strains was observed (p
