Open AccessMicrobe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat
Author(s) -
Stephen P. Diggle,
Marvin Whiteley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.019
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1465-2080
pISSN - 1350-0872
DOI - 10.1099/mic.0.000860
Subject(s) - pseudomonas aeruginosa , opportunistic pathogen , microbiology and biotechnology , pathogen , virulence , biology , biofilm , human pathogen , multicellular organism , antibiotics , organism , bacteria , antibiotic resistance , pseudomonas , gene , genetics
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen and a model bacterium for studying virulence and bacterial social traits. While it can be isolated in low numbers from a wide variety of environments including soil and water, it can readily be found in almost any human/animal-impacted environment. It is a major cause of illness and death in humans with immunosuppressive and chronic conditions, and infections in these patients are difficult to treat due to a number of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and the organism's propensity to form multicellular biofilms.