Clinical populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from acute infections show a wide virulence range partially correlated with population structure and virulence gene expression

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2089-2098

  Janjua, Hussnain A ^a   Segata, Nicola ^b   Bernabò, Paola ^a   Tamburini, Sabrina ^a   Ellen, Albert ^a   Jousson, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBON METABOLISM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EXOS GENE; EXOU GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; QUORUM SENSING; RHLR GENE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84865638096     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.056689-0     Document Type: Article

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