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Microbe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat

Author(s) -

Stephen P. Diggle,

Marvin Whiteley

Publication year - 2019

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 , microbiology and biotechnology , pathogen , opportunistic pathogen , biology , virulence , 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.

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